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I'm using ArchLinux, I followed their tutorial on encrypting your root filesystem:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Using_DM-Crypt

But I cannot get grub to boot the encrypted partition.

My grub file looks like this:

root (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux cryptdevice=/dev/sda4:root root=/dev/mapper/root ro
initramfs /intiramfs-linux.img

I've tried editing this to everything I could think of, and everything I could find online, but nothing will boot. It always gives me this error:

ERROR: device '/dev/mapper/root' not found. Skipping fsck.
ERROR: unable to find root device '/dev/mapper/root'.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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That doesn't look like a Grub2 configuration file, looks like plain Grub. – Mat Jul 8 '12 at 15:36
Ah, my mistake, thank you. – Jake Jul 8 '12 at 16:15
This isn't a grub issue per se; it is your initramfs that does not seem to understand how to open the encrypted volume. – psusi Jul 9 '12 at 0:44
Did you add the "encrypt" hook to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and rebuilt your initramfs? – Wieland Jul 9 '12 at 16:24

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