[SOLVED]Cannot boot into encrypted system after install

Alpine will not boot into my encrypted system after install. When I reboot I get the following message:

mount: mounting: UUID=### on /sysroot failed: No such file or directory
Mounting root failed.

I have rebuilt the initramfs using mkinitfs with cryptsetup using the configuration file in my installation:

mkinitfs -c /mnt/etc/mkinitfs/mkinitfs.conf -b /mnt

I adjusted syslinux append line for:

APPEND cryptdevice=/dev/sda:cryptdev root=UUID=#### ....

I have even tried the old:

APPEND cryptroot=/dev/sda cryptdm=cryptdev real_root=UUID=### .....

I have also tried not using UUIDs, however, nothing gets me to the passphrase prompt.

I have installed alpine linux onto an encrypted partition following these instructions:

http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/LVM_on_LUKS

and following the arch linux wiki. I have installed arch linux onto encrypted partitions many, many times without a problem booting. I installed an older version of alpine into an encrypted partition about a year ago and it worked with no hiccups.

There are two possible problems that I see:
1) I had to symlink 4.1.19-grsec with 4.1.20-grsec in /mnt/lib/modules for mkinitfs to work
2) something is wrong with mkinitfs that does not include the decryption stuff in the initramfs

Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks