o.k. thanx! here are some of the results (which in a way surprise me): > You didn't say what kernel you are running. 2.4 and older kernels need > modutils to load kernel modules. 2.6 kernels need module-init-tools to > load > kernel modules. > What does "uname -a" command say? Linux client4 2.4.18-4GB #1 Don Mär 16 09:55:52 CET 2006 i686 unknown > What does "ls -l /lib/modules/*/block/loop*" command say? Nothing! There is no block subdirectory ... ls -l /lib/modules/2.4.18-4GB/ build modules.dep modules.parportmap pcmcia dvb modules.generic_string modules.pcimap pcmcia-external kernel modules.ieee1394map modules.pnpbiosmap thinkpad misc modules.isapnpmap modules.usbmap wlan-ng > What does "modprobe loop" command say? If it says something like this: > "modprobe: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented", then it is caused by > missing module-init-tools. Nothing: modprobe loop modprobe: Can't locate module loop > What does "cat /proc/devices" command say? cat /proc/devices Character devices: 1 mem 2 pty 3 ttyp 4 ttyS 5 cua 7 vcs 10 misc 13 input 14 sound 21 sg 29 fb 116 alsa 128 ptm 136 pts 162 raw 180 usb Block devices: 1 ramdisk 2 fd 3 ide0 8 sd 9 md 11 sr 22 ide1 65 sd 66 sd Zhere is no loop-device. but why? i did patch the util-linux and ran through the instructions given in the README. > You said you were using loop-AES-v1.7, which is pretty old. Newer kernels > may need newer version of loop-AES to compile correctly. loop-AES' > userland > to kernel interface is binary compatible, so if you build a kernel module > using latest released version of loop-AES, it should work fine with your > old > losetup/mount programs. well, maybe it is a good idea to get a newer version of loop-aes and try to install it. since this seems to me rather weird. any better idea? so i hope the disks will mount also on the new versions. bernhard - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
