Hi Max, you were right. The new loop.ko was only in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/updates and not in the initrd. After creating a new initrd with update-initramfs and modifying /conf/modules again it now does what it was supposed to do :) Thank you. Torsten - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/