On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 04:49:59PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Normen Wohner <nor...@wohner.eu> wrote:
> > 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 see a list of disks detected by the BIOS, type 'machine disk' 
the boot> promp. Keydisks will only work during boot if they show
up in this list.
Other keydisks will only work once the kernel has already booted up.

Perhaps this should be thrown into the FAQ, this question keeps coming up...

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