Hi I have been trying to boot my loop-aes backed gpg encrypted root partition with no success. I know the partition is alright as I can mount it using a rescue cd such as knoppix or from my unencrypted temporary root. I have followed the README file in loop-AES directory step by step but no avail. When the system boots, it just sits after uncompressing the initrd image. There is no error message printed and no password prompt. It sits there forever. The last message it prints is something of the sort compressed ram image found at 0. Mounting root fs minixfs filesystem or something similar but it never goes any further. I am using a custom compiled kernel (2.6.22.1) with the following relevant config options: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y CONFIG_PROC_FS=y USEDIETLIBC=1 # CONFIG_CRAMFS is not set CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y Note the system detects the hds correctly as the chipset drivers are compiled in and I can see them being detected on boot. I am using loop-AES-3.2a and the actual loop device is fine - i.e. make tests is ok. The contents of my build-inittrd.sh file are as follows: USEDEVFS=0 USEPIVOT=1 BOOTDEV=/dev/hda1 BOOTTYPE=ext2 CRYPTROOT=/dev/hda2 ROOTTYPE=ext3 LOINIT="-I 0" USEGPGKEY=1 GPGKEYFILE=rootkey.gpg EXTERNALGPGFILES=0 USEMODULE=1 INITRDONLY=0 ROOTLOOPINDEX=5 TEMPLOOPINDEX=7 DESTINATIONPREFIX=/boot I don't know if it is relevant but it is running on a heavily modified ubuntu 7.04. Any help is greatly appreciated. Regards, Jivko - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
