How to make a bootable USB stick for booting a geli encryptet hard disk?

[Frank J. Beckmann]

Hi,

am Mittwoch, 19. April 2006 18:45 schrieb Adam Wood:
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> On 4/19/06, Frank J. Beckmann <frank at barda.agala.net> wrote:
> > Thank you very much for your detailed description. It tells me that I
> > have done everything right. I prepared the USB device like you described
> > it, but none of my two computers is alble to boot the USB device. One
> > always tells me "ivalid slice" and the other "invalid label". Because of
> > that I think there is some geometry problem. I guess the bios uses
> > another geometry than FreeBSD does. Or something else is completely
> > wrong.
>
> You might try using a CD-R, then. For this, you'll need access to
> another (FreeBSD) system that has sysutils/cdrtools installed on it
> (mkisofs is part of sysutils/cdrtools).

A CD or DVD is not an option. It has to be an USB device. The big question is 
why does booting the USB device not work?
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Tschüss
Frank