Re: [dm-crypt] device-mapper problem

["Ali Reza Sajedi" <arsajedi@khanehjou.com>]

Dear Milan,

I use Ubuntu 8.10.

Why does the system not load the module automatically while booting.

Best regards

Ali

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Milan Broz" <mbroz@redhat.com>
To: "Ali Reza Sajedi" <arsajedi@khanehjou.com>
Cc: <dm-crypt@saout.de>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] device-mapper problem


> On 06/10/2010 11:31 AM, Ali Reza Sajedi wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>  
>> I have cryptsetup 1.1.2 installed.
>>  
>> Everytime after a new boot when I try to execute a cryptsetup command I
>> get the following error:
>>  
>> /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found
>> Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel?
>> Failaure to communicate with kernel device mapper driver.
>>  
>> The problem is solved after trying to load the module dm_mod with:
>>  
>> modprobe dm_mod
>>  
>> Inspite of loading the module this problem keeps coming with every
>> system booting.
> 
> The dm_mod module must be loaded before using DM devices, so probably
> this is missing from initramdisk init? Depends on distro.
> 
> Milan
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