Re: Loop-AES 1.6f and gpg encrypted root trouble

[Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>]

mikael.laakso@bitstream.fi wrote:
> I'm having difficulties in booting with a GPG encrypted root partition,
> here is the relevant part of my dmesg:
> 
> >RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> >Freeing initrd memory: 2k freed
> >VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) readonly.
> >Mounted devfs on /dev
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >Freeing unused kernel memory: 260k freed
> >Mounting /dev/hda1 as /lib failed
> >flushing ide devices: hda hdc
> >System halted.

You should use devfs names for /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 in build-initrd.sh if
you set USEDEVFS=1.

> I've used the updated build-initrd.sh together with the util-linux patches
> for util-linux-2.11t from
> http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/updates/2002-07-17/.

Util-linux patches in loop-AES-v1.6f are newer than those in
http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/updates/2002-07-17/

> build-initrd.sh has:
> 
> BOOTDEV=/dev/hda1

BOOTDEV=/dev/discs/disc0/part1

> BOOTTYPE=ext2
> CRYPTROOT=/dev/hda2

CRYPTROOT=/dev/discs/disc0/part2

> ROOTTYPE=xfs
> USEGPGKEY=1
> GPGKEYFILE=rootkey.gpg
> USEMODULE=1
> USEPIVOT=1
> INITRDONLY=0
> SOURCEROOT=
> DESTINATIONROOT=
> DESTINATIONPREFIX=/boot
> USEDEVFS=1

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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