03/03/2012 01:30, Matthias Weiler wrote: > Hello everyone! > > As the subject suggests: I've encrypted my root partition with a super > secret passphrase. The problem is that there is one character that I > don't know how to enter with the english keyboard layout. > > I get to the (initramfs) prompt. What can I do from there on? > > I've checked Debian Wiki [0], Arch Wiki [1] and Stackexchange [2] but > they didn't help altogether. I don't have dpkg-reconfigure or > initramfs.conf. > > What am I missing? > > Thanks for your time! > > greetins > Matthias > > [0] http://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard#Set_Keyboard_Layout_in_initramfs > [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/System_Encryption_with_LUKS > [2] > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15955/how-to-set-keyboard-layout-used-to-enter-password-on-an-encrypted-filesystem > >
Hi, the steps you are looking at are only effective when in the system, then after doing the appropriate changes you can rebuild an initramfs which will include whatever key-map you've chosen. Now, as per changing key-map from the busybox prompt itself I don't think it's possible (but I may very well be wrong here), and even if busybox had the equivalent of the "loadkeys" command you're only going to have access to whatever key-maps are included, there may not be any outside the default one... You can print yourself a qwerty US keymap (or use another computer or phone on-screen keyboard) as a guide, or start from a live-cd, unlock and mount your system partition (bind mount /dev,/sys,/proc and mount /boot if it's a separate partition) chroot on it and rebuild initramfs after setting up options to include the appropriate key-map. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
