Translations:Dm-crypt full disk encryption/46/en

After encrypting system or disk(s), one will need an initramfs so that rootfs can be mounted in there and then pass the control to real init. There are a few generic initramfs builder that can be used to accomplish the task such as, (there's a thread in the forums and an ebuild: sys-kernel/mkinitramfs-ll) or even  (or the next variant) which has LUKS support.