Re: Help booting a gpg encrypted loop-aes backed root partition

["Jivko Sabev" <jsabev@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jari, thank you for your suggestion.

However, the problem persists. I did set TOOLSPROMT=1 and rebuild my
initrd but the boot process hangs at exactly the same place as up until
now. It doesn't ask to press enter. The last message it prints is:

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) readonly
Freeing unused kernel memory: 192k free

and it just sits there. Note that it doesn't freeze - there is no kernel
panic and it accepts input from the keyboard. It echos characters typed on
the console and you can reboot by <ctrl><alt><del>.

My Grub configuration is pretty standard as per build-init-rd.sh
instructions. Namely:

title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.22.1 Encrypted
root  (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.1 root=100 init=/linuxrc rootfstype=minix
initrd /initrd-crypt.gz

I did verify dietlibc and it is working fine.

Regards,

Jivko

> Jivko Sabev wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> You provided some data about your setup, but something is still missing.
> Your bootloader configuration, and specifically what parameters get passed
> to kernel when it boots is important. Please provide that info.
>
> Can you also modify your build-initrd.sh config so that
>
> TOOLSPROMPT=1
>
> is set there? Then build new initrd. It doesn't do much other than ask you
> to press ENTER key when initrd code begins to run. At least you get to
> know
> if it got that far.
>
> Also, can you verify that dietlibc is working ok? Like this:
>
> $ printf '#include <unistd.h>\nint main(){write(1,"hello\\n",6);}\n'
> >xxx.c
> $ diet gcc -O2 -s xxx.c
> $ ./a.out
> hello
> $
>
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