On 05/07/2011 04:21 AM, Andrew Lutomirski wrote: > I just moved my boot disk from an old machine to a new machine. The > new machine has AES-NI and it failed to boot. > > The problem appears to be that aesni-intel, when loaded as a module, > makes cryptsetup fail on an aes-xts-plain drive. The error looks > like: > device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument > device-mapper: table: 253:0: crypt: Error allocating crypto tfm > device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table dmcrypt works with AES-NI without problem. If it is during boot, probably just some modules are missing in your initramfs. I remember exactly the same problem and it was caused by missing crypto/fpu.ko kernel module, adding module to initrams explicitly like "dracut --force --add-drivers fpu" helped in this case (on Fedora). Milan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
