geli keyfile not loading at boot

[Anton Sayetsky]

2014-08-20 18:05 GMT+03:00 Michael W. Lucas <mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have a default FreeBSD 10.0/amd64 install.
>
> I'm trying to make a GELI device attach at boot. I initialized the
> partition with -b, and am prompted at boot. When I try to enter the
> passphrase, I keep getting told that it's incorrect. Once I get into
> multi-user mode and manually attach the device, it attaches just fine.
>
> It seems that GELI isn't finding my key file.
>
> My initial root partition is da0p2. The key is /boot/da1p1.key. The
> GELI partition is da1p1. Here's my loader.conf:
>
> geom_eli_load=YES
> geli_da1p1_keyfile0_load="YES"

->>>
> geli_da1p1_keyfile0_type="da0p2:geli_da1p1_keyfile0"
-<<<
This is wrong.

> geli_da1p1_keyfile0_name="/boot/da1p1.key"
> kern.geom.eli.debug=3
>
> Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong here?
>
> (Yes, I could just use the installer to do an encrypted install, but
> then I wouldn't be able to write about this in a book...)
>
> Thanks,
> ==ml
>
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