On Monday 08 October 2007 10:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hopefully the wisdom of list users will fix my problems.... > > > Problem one: > > I installed 10.3 on my Acer Ferrari Saturday, after backing up /home > to some external hard drives. Those hard drives are encrypted using > YaST's partitioner (under 10.2, using loop-crypt) and via command > line (losetup -e twofish256). When I try and mount them under 10.3 > using the YaST partitioner, they are never mounted. I have tried > mounting them manually from the command line, but they never mount. > The twofish256 option doesn't work (ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Invalid > argument), so I tried twofish, but the drives still never mount. > > As it stands now, the entire backup of my e-mail and documents are > sitting on some drives which are unreadable unless I revert to 10.2 > on one of the other machines. > > Problem two: > > In the process of troubleshooting problem one, I decided to wipe out > of the of the drives and encrypt it via the new method (LuKS). I set > the options to not mount at startup and to be mountable by user, and > mount by device name. I can't mount that drive either. It appears > that every time I shut the laptop down the mapper device disappears, > forcing me to re-create it each time. After doing this, the drive > will mount, but I am never asked for the password. > > > Has anyone run into these problems? How did you resolve them? > > Thanks in advance.
Is the kernel module cryptoloop loaded? -- Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
