Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:26:54 -0500 From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@ilse.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Boot-time pass for geli on 7.0-BETA2 (and RELENG_7) not working for me. Message-ID: <4731D93E.2020600@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <20071107150439.GA29825@ilse.net> References: <20071106153524.GD89335@ilse.net> <20071107094140.GA34136@www.photor.de> <20071107150439.GA29825@ilse.net>
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>> What kind of passphrase do you use? I had the same "problem" until I >> realized, that my passphrase contained a letter, which changed its >> "position" on the keyboard when changing layout, during boot it is still >> the US-layout. Later it changed to de in my case (no problem to attach >> geli device later). >> >> Just a hint. > > Hmm, thanks for the tip. I set the passphrase to 'a' now, and when I set > 'kern.geom.eli.visible_passphrase=1' I see that the 'a' is typed as > expected. When I type more characters though, not all of them are > printed, only about half of them. > > I did read about problems with SMP, and have set kern.geom.eli.threads=1 > in loader.conf, but still no go. I also found somewhere that there was/is also a problem with passphrase entry when you have kbdmux enabled in the kernel. However, removing it did not fix it for me. Because I am booting from a USB thumbdrive which has my key on it, and the thumbdrive is removed after boot, I just went without a passphrse. Steve
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