@kelmo

std. 2.6.8 has built in AES support - what is this patch doing ?

and keep in mind - every thing used to work till I've removed "mount-aes" while installiond "udev" algon with the std. mount and losetup.

i think i've tried the CD method mentioned by pau1knopp without success.

but i will try all this (again) and report.

cheers
frantek