loop-aes: problem after repartitioning disk
Juergen Lemke <[email protected]>
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Dear all Until yesterday I had a hard drive with three partitions, one used as a root partition encrypted with loop-aes, another unencrypted partition and swap space. I had to delete the unencrypted partition and divide it into two smaller, separate partitions, which I did using cfdisk. As a result, cfdisk shows that the partition encrypted with loop-aes changed names from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hda4. After this change I could not boot my encrypted system from the usual usb stick. I booted using a knoppix cdrom, mounted my usb key under /boot and edited initrd.conf on the usb key so that it read CRYPTROOT=/dev/hda4 (rather than /dev/hda3) and then ran $ sudo ./build-initrd.sh /boot/initrd.conf [this copied a bunch of files and only generated warnings about not being able to preserve permissions on two files] $ sudo umount /boot $ sudo syslinux /dev/sdc But this did not work. When I now try to boot from the usb stick, I get this message: Error: gpg key file decryption failed Command "/lib/losetup -e AES256 -I 0 -K /lib/rootkey.gpg -G /lib /dev/loop5 /dev/hda4" returned error even after having repeatedly inserted the correct passphrase. I booted back into knoppix and verified, running "gpg -d rootkey.gpg", that I can still correctly decrypt it using my passphrase. Where did I mess up? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Best Juergen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verfügt über einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. http://mail.yahoo.com - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/