OK, well attempt #1 = fail. >From busybox (which apparently is ash... I get your comment now Mathieu) I tried first to create a /etc/crypttab file with the correct info in it, but of course this doesn't stay after a reboot, now does it... ha. So I got the rescue up and running; all of the appropriate modules are in there: aes, dm-crypt and dm-mod, put the data in the crypttab file, and tried to use mkinitramfs -o <initrd-filename> but got a cryptsetup error: WARNING: invalid line in /etc/crypttab This is odd to me since there is only one line in it: MtOlympus /dev/sda4 none luks This may be a bug in cryptsetup, as I've been reading in various other posts, so I'm going to see if I can update the package through the rescue disk... Thanks for your help guys! Matt
