Backtrack 4 Full Disk Encryption How-to Minor Update

by kriggins on January 21, 2010

in Announcement

I made a small update to the Backtrack 4 - Bootable USB Thumb Drive with "Full" Disk Encryption how-to.

Some people are having issues with the xts.ko module not getting copied to the initrd image. This makes the the root and swap partitions unmountable because the encrypted partition can't be opened. Most have been able to correct this by redoing the install, but I wondered if maybe a consistent modules file would help, i.e. don't require the user to edit the file.

To that end, I have modified the how-to. I created a preconfigured modules file like I did for the two pvcrypt scripts and added the wget command to download it.  I also added what the contents of that file should look like.

Both the on-line how-to and the pdf have been updated.

Note: The video does not show this step. It still shows the manual method.

-Kevin

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