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Date:      Sun, 27 Jan 2019 12:51:18 -0600
From:      Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Not sure if this is the correct place.... (laptop, dual-boot EFI)
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Here's a write-up on it -- it was /much /simpler than I expected and
unlike my X220 didn't require screwing with group policy for Bitlocker
to coexist with a dual-boot environment.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=3D234936

Feel free to grab/reproduce/link to/whatever; hope this helps others.=C2=A0=

It runs very nicely on 12-RELEASE -- the only thing I've noted thus far
is the expected lack of 5g WiFi support.

On 1/26/2019 15:04, Karl Denninger wrote:
> Nevermind!
>
> I set the "-g" flag on the provider and.... voila.=C2=A0 Up she comes; =
the
> loader figured out that it had to prompt for the password and it was
> immediately good.
>
> Now THAT'S easy compared with the convoluted BS I had to do (two
> partitions, fully "by-hand" install, etc) for 11 on my X220.
>
> Off to the races I go; now I have to figure out what I have to set in
> Windows group policy so Bitlocker doesn't throw up every time I boot
> FreeBSD (this took a bit with my X220 since the boot manager tickled
> something that Bitlocker interpreted as "someone tampered with the
> system.")=C2=A0 Maybe this will be a nothingburger too (which would be =
great
> if true.)
>
> I'm going to write this one up when I've got it all solid and post it o=
n
> my blog; hopefully it will help others.
>
> On 1/26/2019 14:26, Karl Denninger wrote:
>> =C2=A01/26/2019 14:10, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 1:01 PM Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net
>>> <mailto:karl@denninger.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Further question....=C2=A0 does boot1.efi (which I assume has to =
be
>>>     placed on
>>>     the EFI partition and then something like rEFInd can select it)
>>>     know how
>>>     to handle a geli-encrypted primary partition (e.g. for root/boot =
so I
>>>     don't need an unencrypted /boot partition), and if so how do I te=
ll it
>>>     that's the case and to prompt for the password?
>>>
>>>
>>> Not really. The whole reason we ditched boot1.efi is because it is
>>> quite limited in what it can do. You must loader.efi for that.
>>> =C2=A0
>>>
>>>     (If not I know how to set up for geli-encryption using a non-encr=
ypted
>>>     /boot partition, but my understanding is that for 12 the loader w=
as
>>>     taught how to handle geli internally and thus you can now install=

>>>     12 --
>>>     at least for ZFS -- with encryption on root.=C2=A0 However, that =
wipes the
>>>     disk if you try to select it in the installer, so that's no good
>>>     -- and
>>>     besides, on a laptop zfs is overkill.)
>>>
>>>
>>> For MBR stuff, yes. For loader.efi, yes. For boot1.efi, no: it did no=
t
>>> and will not grow that functionality.
>>>
>>> Warner
>>> =C2=A0
>> Ok, next dumb question -- can I put loader.efi in the EFI partition
>> under EFI/FreeBSD as "bootx64.efi" there (from reading mailing list
>> archives that appears to be yes -- just copy it in) and, if yes, how d=
o
>> I "tell" it that when it finds the freebsd-ufs partition on the disk i=
t
>> was started from (which, if I'm reading correctly, it will scan and lo=
ok
>> for) that it needs to geli attach the partition before it dig into the=
re
>> and find the rest of what it needs to boot?
>>
>> That SHOULD allow me to use an EFI boot manager to come up on initial
>> boot, select FreeBSD and the loader.efi (named as bootx64.efi in
>> EFI/FreeBSD) code will then boot the system.
>>
>> I've looked as the 12-RELEASE man page(s) and it's not obvious how you=

>> tell the loader to look for the partition and then attach it via GELI
>> (prompting for the password of course) before attempting to boot it;
>> obviously a "load" directive (e.g. geom_eli_load =3D"YES") makes no se=
nse
>> as the thing you'd "load" is on the disk you'd be loading it from and
>> its encrypted.. .never mind that loader.conf violates the 8.3 filename=

>> rules for a DOS filesystem.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
--=20
Karl Denninger
karl@denninger.net <mailto:karl@denninger.net>
/The Market Ticker/
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