On 11/4/2012 2:07 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 07:08:58PM -0400, Jiri B wrote:
This is totally fantastic what jsing@ did, boot(8) can now ask
for passphrase for root disk laying on softraid crypto volume.
It works OK.
But I didn't know it works with passphrase beforeso I first
tried with keydisk... What a surprise, boot(8) could not use key
disk for crypto volume (still printing 'Passphrase:').
Is this my PEBKAC/a bug or this feature is still WIP?
It seems the current code doesn't support it yet. It could be made to
work as long as the bios exposes the key disk. If you can boot from your
keydisk the bios can see it. I believe booting from USB sticks is usually
possible with today's laptops, while booting from SD card rarely works.
I don't boot a lot of laptops off of USB, but it's been a few years
since I had a desktop or server that had a problem booting from USB, and
even if they had a problem booting, the BIOS could usually at least see
it as a disk.
You know you're a sys admin when you have a USB stick with a *nix on it
ready to go in the car/backpack/wallet/shoe at all times.
