On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 01:12:11PM +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > ><rescue> cryptsetup open /dev/sda2 sysroot > Enter passphrase for /dev/sda2: > [ 355.726880] device-mapper: table: 253:0: crypt: unknown target type > [ 355.727799] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table > device-mapper: reload ioctl on temporary-cryptsetup-148 failed: Invalid argument > Failed to open temporary keystore device. > device-mapper: remove ioctl on temporary-cryptsetup-148 failed: No such device or address > ... > ><rescue> > > Any ideas why I cannot open the LUKS encrypted partition please? It's a good question. The error seems to indicate that the dm-crypt.ko kernel module is not loaded, so I guess you could try 'modprobe dm-crypt' before the cryptsetup command. (Also check your *host* kernel supports dm-crypt). Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list virt-tools-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list