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

> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.1 root=100 init=/linuxrc rootfstype=minix

This looks right; I would suggest trying adding 'console=tty1' (see
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt) just to make your using the VGA
console explicit rather than implied.

You should be seeing all the kernel boot-time messages scroll by,
unless you have some redirection like bootsplash going on; if not, I
would think you are missing some console option - consider posting
your video hardware, the output of 'grep CONSOLE .config', and 'grep
_FB_ .config'.  At this point, it would also be fruitful to tell us if
you're using the vanilla kernel.org sources, a patched set from
Ubuntu, or otherwise (I use Gentoo's hardened-sources, myself).

If you know where your boot-time kernel messages are going and are
okay with that, then my next suspect would be the actual init process
- i.e., it's starting, but freezing at some point.  That, I'm not sure
I can help you with.


RB

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