Re: invalid argument in 2.4.18

[Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>]

lbea@gmx.net wrote:
> O.k. this worked so far. Now it's all compiled pretty much after the
> description in the README file of loop-aes. Now i created a container with
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=bea1 bs=60k count=1280
> 
> as user in a certein directory.
> 
> switched to root and did:
> 
> losetup -e AES256 -T /dev/loop1 ./bea1
> 
> and got:
> 
> Passwort:
> Retype password:
> ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS: Das Argument ist ungültig (invalid argument)
> 
> Thus i'm back to my first problem ...
> 
> What now? In 2002 there was a similar question for cryptoapi on this list.
> The answer was that in /proc/crypto the cipher was not found and has to be
> installed. Well, /proc/crypto doesn't exist here. It needs something else. Any
> idea?

loop-AES does not need /proc/crypto. Please post output of the make command
that you used to compile loop.o module, as well as outputs of "uname -a",
"lsmod", and "ls -l /lib/modules" commands.

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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