I'm experiencing the same problem on a 14.04 system. It can't find it's root partition which is on lvm. When it drops to an initramfs shell the keyboard fails to work; the keyboard did work at the grub menu. I've tried most of the workarounds here and so far none work.
Kind of annoying really. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1238194 Title: keyboard doesn't work to enter password with encrypted partitions ubuntu 13.10 saucy To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1238194/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs