Hi, I'm at my wit's end over this, after much googling and grappling with the problem for hours.
I recently reinstalled Debian on my laptop, since I wanted to move to whole disk encryption, and although I could have done it without reinstalling (by moving the system off to my external HDD, which I anyway had to do for my personal data), I decided to enjoy a reinstallation, learn more about the system and installer, and get rid of a great deal of accumulated cruft while I'm at it. The difficult saga of the installation itself is a story for a different time (an installation report, which I'll mention here if anyone's interested) but I'm currently utterly baffled by this: stock debian kernels (2.6.26-2-686 installed by the installer, and 2.6.30-1-686 that I added from the repos) and their initramds properly unlock the encrypted volume when I provide the correct password and then proceed with the boot, but my own kernels (2.6.30 and 2.6.31-rc4-xxxx, from mainline git repo) don't. They ask for the password, but fail to unlock the volume: table:254:0: error allocating crypto tfm ioctl: error adding target to table ioctl: device doesn't appear to be in the dev hash table Command failed: failed to setup dm-crypt key mapping for device /dev/hda4 Check that kernel supports aes-cbc-essiv:sha_256 cipher Google turns up various discussions of this error over the last couple of years, but they all seem to have been caused by transitions in the kernel / cryptsetup / initramfs development, and they all seem to have been fixed. I've opened my initrds and debian's with gzip / cpio and compared the included modules and scripts, and I just can't figure out what's wrong with mine and why. I seem to have all the required crypto modules, and I can't see anything that I'm missing. I'm attaching the output of "find" run against the directory into which I unpacked the initrd. All initrds have been created by initramfs. Any hints or advice will be much appreciated. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator
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