Sunday, March 31, 2019

Re: Troubleshooting FDE with SD Card Reader

On 2019-03-31, Normen Wohner <normen@wohner.eu> wrote:
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>> On Mar 31, 2019, at 12:56, Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 04:49:59PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>>> Normen Wohner <normen@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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> As suspected nothing from the internal reader.
> Thanks for all the help!
>
>

Sometimes it depends on BIOS settings.

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