I've been struggling with my Ubuntu file server the past few weeks getting it to boot reliably. This server has been running pretty smoothly until I upgraded to 9.10 (and then 10.04 in desperation) ...

This guy wanted to be able to remotely decrypt the boot drive on a power-off reboot, so he could SSH back in and use it normally. Since initramfs is basically a full blow OS, he installed & configured ...