Re: problem: loop-aes swap partition isn't mounted

[Max Vozeler <max@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 07:35:36PM +0200, Tobias Walkowiak wrote:
> using debian (unstable) with kernel 2.6.13 (vanilla from kernel.org) doesn't
> mount the swapspace that should be mounted via
> /dev/sda2       none    swap    sw,loop=/dev/loop6,encryption=AES128    0 0
> in /etc/fstab.
> 
> i did compile the loop-aes and loop-aes-ciphers after building the kernel,
> of course. is there any known problem with it? it still worked with the
> latest official debian 2.6.11 kernel!

Nothing known from the Debian side, no.

How does the failure show itself? Any error messages? Is the loop device
setup and shown by losetup -a and is there an entry in /proc/swaps? Is
the correct loop module loaded?

cheers,
Max

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