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.
