Cheers Jari. I suppose I should have guessed from the modprobe line, but I didn't realise the loopaes boot would look for it. Thanks for your time. Quoting Jari Ruusu on Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:35:14PM +0300: > > Lee Pearson wrote: > > I am getting the following error when booting: > > > > VFS: Mounted root (minix fs) readonly > > Mounted /devfs on /dev > > Freeing unsued kernel memory: 136k freed > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k ext2 errno=2 > ^^^^ > Kernel is trying to load ext2 _module_ because your kernel does not have > ext2 built-in. > > > Mounting /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 as /lib failed > > > > My relevant details are: > > SuSE Linux 8.2 > > Kernel 2.4.21 (have not tried other kernels with this distro) > > loop-AES 1.7d > > Grub, devfs, /boot on hda1, / on hda2 > > > > BOOTDEV=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > > BOOTTYPE=ext2 > ^^^^ > This file system must be built-in. > > Regards, > Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@xxxxxxxxxx> > - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/