hello, I made everything new. The testsystem is a Laptop Celeron-1700, 512 MB, 60 GB-HD; debian-testing was installed and very carefully everything was made as told in the loop-AES_README.txt, a protocol was made on another PC containing even the screen-messages of the testsystem. All related sources and changes on the testsystem was written to stick and secured an another PC, it can be published if wanted, especially the customized build-initrd.sh. /dev/hda1 = 512 MB, ext2 unencrypted mountpoint /boot /dev/hda2 = 4 GB swap now unencrypted and so big for emergency-situations, /dev/hda3 = 55 GB, ext2 should be encrypted with loop-AES256, MP / After rebootíng I waitet for the PW to give; instead I got the following crap: ............. mounting /dev/hda3 on /root failed: No such device ............. mounting /root/dev on /dev/.static/dev failed: No such file or directory mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init Busybox ............... I was never asked for PW and it looks to me that, again, all related to build-initrd.sh had failed maximal, last time I stood in the busybox with no-console, if that was true. ANY suggestions from ANYONE ? Reverend - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/