Thanks for the advice Sven! I'll check with the Ubuntu folks... The issue happened as a result of some unusual installation circumstances, so I am not sure if the installer copied the wrong kernel, or intrid, or failed to include the modules. I appreciate your information! Regards, Matt On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Sven Eschenberg <sven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: > Hi Matt, > > this pretty much depends on several things. First things is: Are the > ciphers and dm drivers built into the kernel or not. > Second, are they really in the initrd. > Third, at what point during the initrd does your distribution load them. > > I personally use an initramfs which is built directly into the kernel > image, but this is not straight forward at all. > > Concerning documentation, you'll need to check with you distribution, since > they do the policies where and when to load modules etc. . > > Regards > > -Sven > > > Matt Rosales schrieb: > > Hi All, >> >> I am trying to do some debugging on my system Re: dm-crypt at boot time. >> (IE >> the kernel can't find my device-mapper root partition for finishing the >> boot). What I am unclear is at what point dm-crypt is actually loaded by >> the >> kernel, or by intrid. I haven't been able to find a run down of when it is >> loaded, or what its role is during boot. Would someone please point me to >> the resources I need to figure this out? Thanks all! >> >> Cheers, >> Matt >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx > > -- (206) 714 4059 matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx PO Box 644 Bellevue, WA, USA 98009-0644
