Re: (almost) full disk encryption, cgdroot and firmware

[Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>]

Brad Spencer wrote:
> Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost> writes:
> I ran with a simular set up for quite a while including the use of a iwm
> based wireless card.
>
> I assume you used init.root and pointed it at the
> cgd after the password was given.

Yep.

> If so, then I believe that the trick
> to getting the firmware to load is that it must be placed in the
> filesystem that the kernel actually was booted from and not the one that
> is chrooted to from init.

I'm pretty sure both firmware files and kernel modules must be in
ramdisk but they aren't. I find it easier to setup (and keep it
updated) a real partition rather than a ramdisk so I went ahead
with a mini fake root on wd0a.

Alex