On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:40:23PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Generally the console has to work even before root is mounted, so > that the user can enter a decryption password if necessary.
Unfortunately, as far as I know currently this doesn't work in Debian. Proper wishlist bug reports have been filled but we haven't come yet to a solution that is good for all developers. Anyway, we may not expect that all initrd images are able to configure the console. > What is it that needs to be done before other filesystems are > mounted, but not before root is mounted? At least the keyboard has to be configured before fsck runs. Anton Zinoviev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120510211603.ga30...@debian.lan