Christian wrote: > I'm at step 14 of Jari's HOWTO (Section "7.6. Example 6 - Boot from > CD-ROM + encrypted root partition"). > > Before encrypting my data with the rescue CD, I wanted to test the CD > burned at step 13e. However, I get a kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount > root fs on ram0. > > Is this an expected error since nothing is encrypted yet? That is not expected. That CD-ROM will not work ok. Most likely boot loader is misconfigured or kernel does not support ram disks. > How can I make sure that the CD will work after my data is encrypted? Boot should proceed to "password:" prompt even if root partition is not yet encrypted. -- Jari Ruusu 1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9 DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
