On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 01:30:21 +0100, 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.
You will probably need a rescue disk that allows you to mount the encrypted root file system and chroot into it to rebuild your initrd as I suggest below. (Your Debian installer may offer such a rescue functionality, but I cannot help you with any details here because I have not had to do something like that in a very long time.) > 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 It seems that update-initramfs does not include the correct keyboard configuration in the initrd: http://bugs.debian.org/619711 If you manage to chroot into your encrypted system then you can try the following workaround: Make sure that your keyboard configuration is coirrect, then save it setupcon --save-keyboard cached.kmap gzip -9n cached.kmap and copy cached.kmap.gz to /etc/console-setup/ (back up the old version if one exists); finally, rebuild your initrd with update-initramfs -u Disclaimer: I have not tried if any of this works. A simpler approach may be to use the rescue disk to change the LUKS passphrase and remove the one troublesome character; my guess would be that this will not significantly affect the entropy of the phrase. -- Regards, | Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120303111841.GA20266@isar.localhost