On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 23:04 +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > Ted Smith schreef: > > I've looked into this a bit more. The preseed file has nothing in it > > related to crytpo, but I get this error message when trying to do crypto > > in the partitioning step: > > > > > >> May 23 17:56:53 anna-install: Installing partman-crypto-dm > >> May 23 17:56:53 anna[7614]: DEBUG: resolver (ext2-modules): package > >> doesn't exist (ignored) > >> May 23 17:56:53 anna[7614]: DEBUG: resolver (fat-modules): package doesn't > >> exist (ignored) > >> May 23 17:56:53 anna[7614]: DEBUG: resolver (crypto-modules): package > >> doesn't exist (ignored) > >> May 23 17:56:53 anna[7614]: DEBUG: resolver (crypto-dm-modules): package > >> doesn't exist (ignored) > >> May 23 17:56:53 anna[7614]: DEBUG: retrieving cryptsetup-udeb 2:1.0.6-7 > >> May 23 17:56:54 anna[7614]: DEBUG: retrieving dmsetup-udeb 2:1.02.27-4 > >> May 23 17:56:54 anna[7614]: DEBUG: retrieving libpopt0-udeb 1.14-4 > >> May 23 17:56:55 anna[7614]: DEBUG: retrieving partman-crypto-dm 36 > > > > Could the problem be that I need crypto-modules and crypto-dm-modules? > > It seems that way. > Well then.
> > The kernel has no crypto support compiled in, and the modules for crypto > > support aren't in the initramfs or even in the gNewSense package. > > We pull in what linux-libre.fsfla.org provides. > I mean, the kernel has support for all of those things; they just weren't included in the binary or in the initrd as modules provided. The build seems to have been custom-rolled by Robert Milan. In fact, it seems so custom-rolled that 'apt-get source linux-image-2.6.31.6-libre1' is an impossible command on my system. > > Further, it was very difficult to find the source package for the > > linux-image-2.6.31.6-libre1 package, and I don't even know if it's > > possible to find the source for the netboot image I downloaded off of > > the gNewSense servers. Could anyone point me to that? > > As said before, the netboot image was created before we had our metad > code under VCS. At the time we were happy that we could get the distro > booted and didn't worry too much about the source. We don't have the > source to the netboot image. This must be fixed. > Yikes. Is that even GPL-compliant? > > I think the best solution would be to try to rebuild the initramfs with > > a more recent kernel, since the 2.6.33 kernel builds have all the > > modules I need. I'm not sure if the partitioner will recognize that, but > > if it doesn't I can go from there. > > Your findings will be appreciated. I'll post them here as soon as I have them, and/or document them on the wiki depending on how much energy for this I have.
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