Hai friend, Please try to execute the command as root user or use sudo command
On Wednesday, 23 July 2014 00:37:07 UTC+5:30, Niko Heeren 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? > > Thanks! > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/d448bfef-02a8-44ef-9a2b-fd2a4d1069bc%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
