On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 2:07 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to encrypt a USB drive using the BBB and Debian wheezy (Kernel > 3.8.13-bone20). > > So the command I try is: > cryptsetup --verbose --verify-passphrase luksFormat /dev/sda1 > > However I get the following errors: > Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. > Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel. > Cannot initialize device-mapper. Is dm_mod kernel module loaded? > Command failed with code 38: Cannot initialize device-mapper. Is dm_mod > kernel module loaded? > > As far as my limited Linux knowledge tells me, the respective kernel modules > are not part of my kernel. Is that correct? Is there an easy way to make > this work? Or do you see alternatives to encrypt USB drives?
So... 3.8.13-bone20 was released on May 28, 2013.. I enabled dm_mod support in 3.8.13-bone22 (on Jun 20, 2013).. We are currently shipping 3.8.13-bone60.. You should really upgrade. Regards, -- Robert Nelson http://www.rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
