Re: loop-aes and 2.5.69

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Terje Fåberg wrote:
> Please forgive me for disturbing you guys. I have
> just found the updates-directory on loop-aes.sf.net.

You did mention that your root partition is encrypted. There is a small
problem with encrypted root partition using initrd.gz created by
build-initrd.sh, because build-initrd.sh expects /sbin/insmod to work with
all kernels and accept currently used options. 2.4 and older kernels need
insmod from modutils package (maintained by Keith Owens), but 2.5 kernels
need insmod from module-init-tool package (maintained by Rusty Russell).
Insmod from module-init-tool package is still lacking behind badly. To work
around module-init-tool package deficiencies, you need to use new version of
build-initrd.sh with these options set:

USEPIVOT=1
SEPARATEMODULEDIR=1

New version is available from usual place:

http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/updates/loop-AES-v1.7c-20030519.diff.bz2
http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/updates/loop-AES-v1.7c-20030519.diff.bz2.sign

Shame on Rusty for creating such incompatible package, shame on Linus for
accepting module code that depends on Rusty's incompatible package, and
shame on me for not testing build-initrd.sh with 2.5 kernels earlier.

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxxx>

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