On Mon 11 Oct 2021 at 23:25:07 (+0200), deloptes wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > > When I boot my Debian machines with LUKS encrypted root filesystems, I > > see a bunch of time-stamped bootloader messages followed by the prompt: > > > > Please unlock disk sda3_crypt: > > > > > > When I type on the keyboard, nothing is echoed to the screen. > > I use plymouth or alike and there I see the asterisk displayed, but with > backspace I can delete an asterisk and it does not produce another one. > It seems there was something wrong with the terminal there.
Ouch. That's suggests that my first suggestion (keyboard layout) was close to the mark, though I never thought of suggesting the behaviour of Backspace, and the OP didn't bring it up. However, it's odd that none of the other routes into unlocking produced any results either. Cheers, David.
