Normen Wohner <nor...@wohner.eu> wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2019, at 20:21, Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Forgive me if I'm being silly but just because the kernel recognizes > > the SD card it does not follow that the software to read it is built > > into _base_. I hardly ever use an SD card but from what I remember you > > have install pcsc-tools from ports to use one. If this is so then you > > will _never_ be able to boot with a keydisk on the SD card. You must > > use the USB. > > > > Good Luck > > No you do not, > even the Installer sees my SD reader > out of the box as a standard umass > device. > Since I can setup the FDE with the > SD during install it should be trivial
Some BIOS can see SD cards, especially if they are USB. But not all systems. Also some BIOS have a different problem, that the moment you choose a root device the other devices don't quite work. I think this can be rather disruptive towards forming a raid. > to make it readable, since the > bootloader is basically the Installer. Look, that is incorrect. The bootloader is a 512 byte program which load a 82K program, which loads the kernel. If the kernel is bsd.rd, it has a shells script inside it which is the installer/upgrader. You are mislabelling the parts. (This vague back and forth without facts is pretty annoying)
