Several people wrote in to give a couple of command line commands you can try. You can do using pseudo FDE setup space author start. Be careful though, because file vault protections are reduced during authenticated restarts. Hugo Jobling writes another interesting quirk about the file vault login screen is that many or maybe all Bluetooth devices will not work here.
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- Unattended restart with FileVault enabled
sudo fdesetup authrestart
- Or, optionally,
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