Hello,

I'm trying to set a fully encrypted server environment with openSUSE
10.2 following the tutorial from the wiki [1]. Everything appears to
work just fine until I reboot into the encrypted system which then
results in a kernel panic ("Kernel panic: no init found. Try passing
init= option to kernel"). Of course, simply adding init=3 as a parameter
does nothing.

Since I did a fresh install following the tutorial precisely, I don't
really have any idea what might have gone wrong. The only difference I
can see is that I am installing the system on a software raid.

I am not sure if this is of any importance, but here is my disk layout:

hda: 250 GB HDD
hdb: 250 GB HDD
hdc: DVD-ROM
hdd: 80 GB HDD
sda: 500 GB HDD
sdb: 500 GB HDD

hda/hdb are configured as a raid0 but not yet used (i.e. neither
encrypted nor mounted). hdd is also not yet used.

sda/sdb are set up as a raid1 and partitioned as follows (no LVM):
sdx1: 100 MB /boot (md0)
sdx2: 5 GB / (md1)
sdx3: 2 GB swap (md2)
sdx4: 493 GB - (md3)

So what I did is install openSUSE on md3, create an encrypted file
system on md1 and copy everything over. I am sure you are all familiar
with the procedure as outlined in the tutorial.

I don't have the menu.lst ready atm, but I basically just copied a
predefined entry and replaced md3 with md1. I can post it tomorrow if
that would be of any help.

Any ideas where I screwed up?

thanks in advance,
raph

[1] http://en.opensuse.org/Encrypted_Roo...ith_SUSE_HOWTO