Pre-boot authentication / geli-aware bootcode

[Aaron Zauner]

AFAIK you'd need something similary to initrd
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd), which, to the best of my
knowledge, does not currently exist in freebsd.

so long,
azet

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Robert Simmons <rsimmons0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it be possible to make FreeBSD's bootcode aware of geli encrypted volumes?
>
> I would like to enter the password and begin decryption so that the
> kernel and /boot are inside the encrypted volume.  Ideally the only
> unencrypted area of the disk would be the gpt protected mbr and the
> bootcode.
>
> I know that Truecrypt is able to do something like this with its
> truecrypt boot loader, is something like this possible with FreeBSD
> without using Truecrypt?
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