On 31 Jul 2015, at 12:15, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks for your reply Rich. I’ll take another look at this soon. Kind Regards, Keith > -- > 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
