I've been trying (so far with little success) to get the kerneli patches working with my system. Unfortunatley, the kerneli patches apparently haven't been updated for some time now (since 2.4.3) and as I am using kernel 2.4.8 this seems to be a bit of a problem. However, I was able to find a hacked patch that supposedly works with newer kernels (http://www.mattm.f9.co.uk/cryptopatch/patch-int-2.4.7.gz). The patch applied cleanly, and I was able to recompile my kernel and utils-linux succesfully. However, when I try to mount an encrypted partition, the mount fails and I get the following errors in my syslog: Aug 14 21:55:45 lain kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Aug 14 21:55:45 lain kernel: 07:00 rw=0, want 10241, limit 10240 Aug 14 21:55:45 lain kernel: EXT2-fs: unable to read group descriptors That's when I use blowfish as the cipher. Using AES I get the following: Aug 14 22:03:31 lain kernel: EXT2-fs error (device loop(7,0)): ext2_check_descriptors: Block bitmap for group 0 not in group (block 3573131651)! Aug 14 22:03:31 lain kernel: EXT2-fs: group descriptors corrupted! Has anyone been able to get kerneli to work with 2.4.8? (or any newer kernel for that matter?) I've been hearing that kerneli is hopelessly broken at the moment and to not even bother with it. If anyone here could help straighten this out, I'd really appriciate it. -- Chris Schadl cschadl@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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