Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Mipsel gNS 3 + crypto

[Sam Geeraerts]

Ted Smith schreef:
> I've looked into this a bit more. The preseed file has nothing in it
> related to crytpo, but I get this error message when trying to do crypto
> in the partitioning step:
>
>
> > May 23 17:56:53 anna-install: Installing partman-crypto-dm
> > May 23 17:56:53 anna[7614]: DEBUG: resolver (ext2-modules): package doesn't 
> > exist (ignored)
> > May 23 17:56:53 anna[7614]: DEBUG: resolver (fat-modules): package doesn't 
> > exist (ignored)
> > May 23 17:56:53 anna[7614]: DEBUG: resolver (crypto-modules): package doesn't 
> > exist (ignored)
> > May 23 17:56:53 anna[7614]: DEBUG: resolver (crypto-dm-modules): package 
> > doesn't exist (ignored)
> > May 23 17:56:53 anna[7614]: DEBUG: retrieving cryptsetup-udeb 2:1.0.6-7
> > May 23 17:56:54 anna[7614]: DEBUG: retrieving dmsetup-udeb 2:1.02.27-4
> > May 23 17:56:54 anna[7614]: DEBUG: retrieving libpopt0-udeb 1.14-4
> > May 23 17:56:55 anna[7614]: DEBUG: retrieving partman-crypto-dm 36
>
> Could the problem be that I need crypto-modules and crypto-dm-modules?

It seems that way.

> The kernel has no crypto support compiled in, and the modules for crypto
> support aren't in the initramfs or even in the gNewSense package.

We pull in what linux-libre.fsfla.org provides.

> Further, it was very difficult to find the source package for the
> linux-image-2.6.31.6-libre1 package, and I don't even know if it's
> possible to find the source for the netboot image I downloaded off of
> the gNewSense servers. Could anyone point me to that?

As said before, the netboot image was created before we had our metad 
code under VCS. At the time we were happy that we could get the distro 
booted and didn't worry too much about the source. We don't have the 
source to the netboot image. This must be fixed.

> I think the best solution would be to try to rebuild the initramfs with
> a more recent kernel, since the 2.6.33 kernel builds have all the
> modules I need. I'm not sure if the partitioner will recognize that, but
> if it doesn't I can go from there.

Your findings will be appreciated.