Success: Works fine with encrypted LVM. confirmed by paulproteus aka asheesh! encrypted LVM failed for zumbi: - Missing crypto modules in the initramfs - with generic initramfs (with dracut-config-generic installed) failed again. - - initramfs had cryptsetup but it did not even try to run cryptsetup (stopped debugging it and went back to initramfs-tools) Problems: - derive keys for swap partition via /lib/cryptsetup/scripts/decrypt_derived (#618862 ?) Possible workaround (not tested) http://gw.tnode.com/debian/issues-and-workarounds-for-debian-8/ - asheesh believes he found a preinst bug.just filed https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=830229 Other remarks: - thomas, if I (asheesh) submit a patch to put the script on the projector into /usr/share/doc/dracut-core/examples/try-dracut-now.sh , would you accept a patch? 14:23 < lfaraone> asheesh: soooo I think the issue is I need to explicitly specify my kernel if I'm running a different kernel than I want to build an initramfs for… that explains "libkmod: ERROR ../libkmod/libkmod.c:557 kmod_search_moddep: could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/4.4.0-28-generic//modules.dep.bin'" 14:23 < lfaraone> asheesh: changing the invok to "dracut --force /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-amd64-dracut 3.16.0-4-amd64" resulted in ahci.ko being automagically included.