mkinitrd and encrypted devices

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Sat Apr 12 14:19:23 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 23:12 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> For fedora9 mkinitrd gives insmod errors with encrypted partitions
> before asking for the paraphrase. I believe the cause is module naming.
> Both modules aes.ko and sha256.ko were renamed in later kernels to
> aes-generic.ko and sha256-generic.ko 

No, the messages are because you're not running on a VIA chip and thus
don't have the hardware for doing the decryption and thus end up falling
back to using the software implementation for the crypto.  

Jeremy




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