I am trying to upgrade openSUSE 10.3 installed on encrypted partition to 11.0 by booting from openSUSE 11 DVD and using the provided update function, but cannot make installer recognize and mount old root [1]. SITUATION I have installed openSUSE 10.3 according to (nearly exactly as in) this guide http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Root_File_System_with_SUSE_HOWTO and would like to upgrade it to openSUSE 11.0 (keeping everything encrypted as it is). From what I understand a "live upgrade" (on working system) is not possible. I have backups of all important data stored on this computer but would like to avoid "fresh install" and going through the whole process of encrypting again. Current (relevant) partitions on my disk are: /dev/sda5 /boot (not encrypted) /dev/sda6 swap (encrypted) /dev/sda7 /root (encrypted) /dev/sda8 /home (encrypted) FAILURE When the installer runs everything works fine up to the moment, when I am supposed to select the root partition. Automatic detection returns nothing and selecting /dev/sda7 (after ticking "Show All Partitions") leads to errors: "No installed system that can be upgraded with this product was found on the selected partition" "Partitions could not be mounted. Check the log file /var/log/YaST2/y2log." [2] "Error Failed to mount target system" WHAT I HAVE ALREADY DONE I managed to switch from graphic installer to CLI [3], load necessary (I suppose) kernel modules [4], and access encrypted partitions (including old root). Encrypted partitions are in /dev/mapper/ and I can mount them with any mountpoint. Unfortunately, the encrypted root (old root) partition is not visible to the installer, whether mounted (/mnt/root) or just opened (meaning only in /dev/mapper/root). I have also tried mounting old root in the /oldroot directory of the system loaded from DVD, but graphic installer still tries to do the mounting by itself and returns errors. "No installed system that can be upgraded with this product was found on the selected partition" "No fstab found" "Cannot unmount partition /mnt/ It is currently in use. If the partition stays mounted, the data may be lost. Unmount the partition manually or restart the computer." "Error Failed to mount target system" How can I make the installer use the encrypted partition and recognize it as the / partition of the system to be upgraded? I am looking for help with this particular problem, but a more general question is: what is the simplest and safest way to perform the upgrade in this situation? I am rather a newbie to Linux, so, please, if it's not a problem, write full commands or refer me to a good source. It is also my first post here -- hello :) I Hope I didn't dump too much information. [1] By old root I mean the one used when not booting from DVD, but normally using the computer. [2] This log is huge, but I will provide a copy, if one is necessary. [3] Command line that can be accessed by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F2 during installation. [4] / # modprobe dm-mod / # modprobe dm-crypt / # modprobe aes / # modprobe sha256 / # modprobe sha1 The last one returned FATAL: Module sha1 not found. -- skx, http://skxpl.eu.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org