Before I could read this response, I found a similar way and got access; luckily the modules where there......... It worked, but I had to recompile the kernel because the klogd made high load. I deleted something more from the working and selfcompiled kernel and name it uname -r-crypto-b and so I did with the initrd.img, the .config and the directory in /boot/modules, but it do not work anymore. This new kernel looked not to work and I build it back, but nothing worked anymore at all. I can acces the crypted /hda3 via knoppix but it looks that everything is there. Of course I also have access to hda1 (unencrypted /boot). Is this so fragile that this can happen anytime or a mistake from me ? I am allways ending in busybox after: (no PW-prompt) mount: Mounting /dev/hda3 on /root failed: No such device Reverend - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/