On 11/04/2014 11:17, Kris Moore wrote: > On 11/04/2014 10:24, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >> Hi! >> >>> If you don't need any USB devices to boot, you can delay their >>> detection by loading the modules through /etc/rc.d/kld instead >>> of the loader: >>> >>> fk@r500 ~ $grep kld /etc/rc.conf >>> kld_list="usb.ko usb_quirk.ko ehci.ko umass.ko" >> Does this really help with the GENERIC kernel ? >> >> If I add this to /etc/rc.conf and do >> >> /etc/rc.d/kld start >> >> this spews a load of errors. >> > > Colin added this to HEAD recently: > > https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/commit/bdb0ac02b9fd8f331fa70c8a4c29495b7ee43293 > > This will allow setting the passphrase at the boot-loader, so it doesn't > get prompted for again during boot. I think there was some work by > dteske@ to add this to the FreeBSD boot menus, but maybe you can use it > manually for now. > > We are using it in PC-BSD to supply the passphrase directly from GRUB, > so we only get prompted a single time. > > (Before somebody asks why we use grub) > We are using grub to do full-disk encryption, without a unencrypted > /boot, among other things :) > >
Yes, as Kris mentioned, the solution is being working on here at MeetBSD by dteske@ (with some advice from jmg@) at the request of cperciva@, using the functionality Colin added to head for Kris to be able to do this for PCBSD. Hopefully this problem will be solved soon. -- Allan Jude _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
