Re: 2.6.XX kernel for encrypted root

Please have a look at:
http://wiki.tuxonice.net/EncryptedSwapAndRoot

On 7/17/07, Jan Klod <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everybody in list!
>
> I was trying to recompile kernel for setting up root encryption - after
> copying ubuntu kernel config. and setting some kernel options following
> loop-AES readme (you can see them at the end of this mail), it ended up
> with kernel panic.
> { Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on
> unknown-block(0,0) }
> What could be wrong?
>
> "All kernel subsystems needed by root file system (IDE drivers,
> ext2/ext3/reiserfs/whatever) must be compiled directly into kernel."
> - which kernel parameters make this real? How to find them?
>
> CONFIG_MODULES=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=n
> CONFIG_KMOD=y
>
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
> CONFIG_MINIX_FS=y
> CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
> CONFIG_CRAMFS=n
> CONFIG_SCSI=y
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
> CONFIG_USB=y
> CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y
> CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
> CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
> CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
>
> CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y
> CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y
> CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
>
> CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
> CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=y
> CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y
> CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y
> CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=850
> CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET=iso8859-15
>
> -
> Linux-crypto:  cryptography in and on the Linux system
> Archive:       http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
>
>

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Linux-crypto:  cryptography in and on the Linux system
Archive:       http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/