[U-Boot-Users] boot a compressed and an encrypted root filesystem ..

[W]

Dear Wolfgang,

Thanks for the reply ..,

> > 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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