On 2017-12-13, soko.tica <soko.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have successfully built an encrypted bootable usb according to the > instructions https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDE > > After booting successfully several times, the device went to ddb after I > installed chrome without previously adding xfonts during the install. > Subsuequent attempts to boot were unsuccessfull. > > I have erased partitions by disklabel and fdisk and tried to repeat the > installation process. However, the encrypted raid device appeared and I was > able to unlock it by the same passphrase, so I ceased the installation. > > Is it possible to delete the crypto raid properly at this stage? Should I > tri to rebuild it? > > Any advice is appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. >
You can use dd to write zeroes over the start of the device to overwrite the partition table and disklabel, I'm not surehow far you have to go but would expect "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsdXc bs=1m count=8" to do the trick (with the correct disk number here ^ obviously). No idea why it would have gone to ddb, your report is very lacking in information!
