James, have you tried a live distro built with dmcrypt support ??? With the debian based grml (www.grml.org) I have flawlessly accessed the encrypted home partition I use with Ubuntu (LTS and 5.10). bye --- Stefano Spinucci --------------------------------------------------------------------- - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx