Re: Full disk encryption Titanium PowerBook G4

Gao-Mi:

Thanks for your response. It makes me feel better to know that the failure wasn't my doing. Thank you for sharing the encrypted home slice resource. I'm looking forward to giving that a shot.

Scott

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On Tuesday, January 28, 2020 10:38 AM, Gao-Mi Baohao <[email protected]> wrote:

> Scott:
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> The last time I messed with it, booting from crypto softraid was not supported on macppc (only i386, amd64, and sparc64).  The man page for softraid ( https://man.openbsd.org/softraid.4 ) seems to confirm that this is still the case.
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> It looks like the openbsd macppc loader simply does not support softraid volumes at this time.
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> Most recently, when I was looking for something similar on an aluminum g4 powerbook, I ended up just doing an encrypted home slice, unlocked at boot from rc.local (for example, see http://astro-gr.org/openbsd-encrypt-home/ ).
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> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 9:57 AM Scott C. MacCallum <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Good morning,
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>> I have a Titanium PowerBook G4 and I'd like to do full disk encryption before the installation of 6.6. I've referenced: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidFDE and https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.6/macppc/INSTALL.macppc, making device changes where I think it's appropriate, but after installation I got the infamous blinking Mac folder.
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>> I've since successfully installed 6.6 without full disk encryption, so I suspect my failure is a result of picking a correct Open Firmware device-specifier.
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>> Has anyone had success with this?
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>> Scott