GELI created on a GPT labelled partition doesn't work 2nd time around...

[John-Mark Gurney]

Andrey V. Elsukov wrote this message on Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 18:22 +0400:
> On 30.09.2014 17:54, John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >> If I repeat the above steps without the initial GPT partition (i.e. against 
> >> /dev/da0) - I end up with '/dev/da0.eli' - which I can then GPT fine etc.
> > 
> > gpt doesn't let you do gpt in gpt.. which explains why you can't
> > create the second level of gpt...
> > 
> > Why do you want/need to partition again?  You could possibly use bsd
> > as the second layer...
> 
> I think bsd in gpt may have problem with booting.

Maybe, but since our boot blocks can't handle geli, that isn't an
issue, though apparently grub can now boot from geli, so not sure
if grub could handle it...

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