Hi, sorry, no. They are tehre alright! brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 2 Mär 23 2002 /dev/loop2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 3 Mär 23 2002 /dev/loop3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 4 Mär 23 2002 /dev/loop4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 7, 5 Mär 23 2002 /dev/loop5 (loop2 to loop4 were the ones ...) any other idea? bernhard > 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/ >> >> > > > - > Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/ > > - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
