Hi,
Sometimes on a new installation the loop devices are not created.
Check this by running "ls /dev/loop*" - you should see some similar to
elvandar:/dev# ls -l /dev/loop*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 0 Dec 22 04:55 /dev/loop0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 1 Dec 22 04:55 /dev/loop1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 Dec 22 04:55 /dev/loop2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 3 Dec 22 04:55 /dev/loop3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 4 Dec 22 04:55 /dev/loop4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 Dec 22 04:55 /dev/loop5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 6 Dec 22 04:55 /dev/loop6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 7 Dec 22 04:55 /dev/loop7
If the loop devices do not exist create them as follows (this should
work for most Linux distributions):
elvandar:/dev# cd /dev
elvandar:/dev# ./MAKEDEV loop
Also refer to "man MAKEDEV".
Cheers,
Daniel.
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 20:01 +0100, Bernhard Stoevesandt wrote:
> hi,
>
> as a longerterm loop-aes user i have now the following problem:
> at my computer (old) my mainboard broke down :(. i replaced it. the
> hard-disks are scsi which wasn't a problem since the board had a scsi
> controller. now the new board doesn't have such a controller and with the
> additional controller the disks didn't boot anymore. after many attampts i
> finally reinstalled the system, build in a new ide harddisk etc.. but i
> left the encrypted partitions untouched as a lot of data is on there.
> now i tried to reinstall loop-aes (version 1.7 it was and is). but after a
> rebot i get the following message:
>
> /dev/loop3: Kein passendes Geraet bzw. keine passende Adresse gefunden
> (which is german and would be translated as:
>
> /dev/loop3: no approprieate (or matching?) device repectively appropriate
> address found
> )
>
> why that? any idea what i could try??
>
> bernhard
>
>
> -
> Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system
> Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
>
>
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Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system
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