OK, after some research i found out, that the paths provided by you were not correct (at least on my kernel/system), the correct ones are: BOOTDEV=/dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 [this is /dev/hde1] and CRYPTROOT=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part10 [this is /dev/hda10] These settings get me just a little bit further. When it tries to execute the losetup command, it gives the error "/dev/loop/0" not found. I already edited the build-initrd.sh files, to disclude the last "/", making it /dev/loop0, but that gave me the same result. Any ideas ? Peter -- Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious animal on earth. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/