Dear Wolfgang,

Thanks for the reply ..,

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Can u-boot, boot a compressed and an encrypted root filesystem .. ?

No, it cannot. U-Boot cannot boot any file systems at all.

U-Boot can boot an OS image, like a Linux kernel image. Linux in turn will then mount a root file system, but if this can be a compressed and encrypted one depends on your Linux system, not on U-Boot.

I see..,

Here is my scenario, i have ngw100 (board based on avr32) and i want the root filesystem, which is reside in mmc/sdcard, to be encrypted. According to your answer, to be able to do this (boot an encrypted root filesystem), i just have to hack the linux kernel image so it can boot an encrypted root right ?

At the loop-aes readme (http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/loop-AES.README) there is a method to encrypt the root filesystem, (7.5. Example 5 - Encrypting root partition), how can i applied this to the my environtment ? Can you give a clue ?

Regards Wildan

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On 7/14/07, W wildan.m@gmail.com wrote:

Here is my scenario, i have ngw100 (board based on avr32) and i want the root filesystem, which is reside in mmc/sdcard, to be encrypted. According to your answer, to be able to do this (boot an encrypted root filesystem), i just have to hack the linux kernel image so it can boot an encrypted root right ?

Can't you just store the kernel image in the on-board flash?

Håvard