hello, with my 3. try, with unclear dietlibc-situation, I got far as never before. I shrinked my hd-to 5GB and the algo to 128, but with gpg used. I did not explicitly configured a crypted swap, I just left loop7 in build-initrd.sh. When I rebooted with the new crypto-kernel, I got no chance to really give the PW. The messages where: Uncompressing Linux....O.K. booting the kernel. Encrypted file system, please supply correct password to continue (no chance for me to give the PW) /dev/loop5: No such device or address Command "/lib/losetup -e AES128 -I 0 -K /lib/rootkey.gpg -G /lib /dev/loop5 /dev/hda3" returned error the last 5 lines are 5-times on the screen Than no further reaction. Reverend - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/