On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 03:53:34PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > > The pen-drive is not needed for your system to run and you can be easly > > take it with you, which is not always the case for your laptop. > > Are you saying that the USB pen-drive can be removed while > the system is running (after it has booted)? I remember > that it was impossible in the past to remove the root vnode > (which in this case would be the /boot file system from the > pen-drive). Did that change recently? Or is there a way > to change the system's root vnode from the pen-drive to the > root file system on the encrypted disk? If so, then how?
The boot directory is different that root file system. /boot/ directory is only accessed by loader before root file system is mounted. The root file system can be mounted from encrypted disk, because loader loads the kernel (and eventually geom_eli.ko module) from the /boot/ directory. Most of the time /boot/ directory is on the root file system, but there is no need for that - you can boot from different /boot/ directory and have different /boot/ directory in your root file system. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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