Thanks again to all who responded and especially to Jari who built an initrd that works. Using Jari's initrd worked right away without any issues. I suppose ubuntu 7.04 uses some weird combinations of compiler/linker options or their package of dietlibc is somehow incompatible but those are just my speculations and I am by no means an expert at this. FYI: I also tried to build the initrd with USEDIETLIBC=0 and that yielded the same result on ubuntu i.e. it didn't work. Many thanks again. Jivko Jari Ruusu wrote: > [snip] > [snip] > >> No filesystems can mount root tried ext2 ext3 minix >> Kernel panic - not syncing >> VFS: unable to mount rootfs on unknow-block(1,1) >> > > Did you see a password prompt before kernel panic? > > No, there was no password prompt either. It just panicked. Building the intird with USEPIVOT=0 didn't help. > I quickly looked at kernel config that you sent me privately. I didn't see > anything wrong with it. > [snip] > 8048383: 65 8b 15 14 00 00 00 mov %gs:0x14,%edx > > which was put there by gcc compiler. Maybe there is some reasonable > explanation for why that is there, but I didn't immediately see it. > > Can you test an initrd that I created for you? I used this config: > > BOOTDEV=/dev/hda1 > BOOTTYPE=ext2 > CRYPTROOT=/dev/hda2 > ROOTTYPE=ext3 > CIPHERTYPE=AES128 > INITRDONLY=1 > DESTINATIONPREFIX=/tmp > > All other config entries are defaults that are found in unmodified > loop-AES-v3.2a build-initrd.sh script. You can download it here: > > http://koti.tnnet.fi/jari.ruusu/tmp/initrd.gz > http://koti.tnnet.fi/jari.ruusu/tmp/initrd.gz.sign - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
