GNU bug report logs - #39288
Incorrect keyboard layout in GRUB stage1 to enter the LUKS passphrase

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Subject: Re: bug#39288: Wrong keyboard layout to decrypt hard drive
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Hi,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@HIDDEN> skribis:

> Could you check whether your system configuration's
> bootloader-configuration actually contains a keyboard-layout field?
>
>       (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
>                     (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
>                     (target "/boot/efi")
>       -->           (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))

I've heard people using the French keyboard layout like this and having
an encrypted root say that GRUB (stage1) would indeed ignore the chosen
keyboard layout.  (I believe GRUB stage2, where the menu and command
line editing features are present, works fine, but that=E2=80=99s after the
passphrase has been entered.)

A quick search yields:

  https://superuser.com/questions/974833/change-the-keyboard-layout-of-grub=
-in-stage-1

=E2=80=A6 which suggests using =E2=80=98grub-mkstandalone=E2=80=99 (which i=
s undocumented but
looks like a tiny superset of =E2=80=98grub-install=E2=80=99) and explicitl=
y adding the
keyboard layout file to the on the command line.  Should we do that?

Problem is, =E2=80=98install-grub-efi=E2=80=99 isn=E2=80=99t passed the con=
figuration.

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.

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Subject: Re: bug#39288: Wrong keyboard layout to decrypt hard drive
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Damien,

Damien Cassou =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A
> during graphical installation I chose to encrypt my hard drive=20
> and to
> use the colemak keyboard layout. After the system rebooted,=20
> typing the
> passphrase in colemak didn't work and I got dropped into rescue
> mode. The rescue mode is in qwerty, not colemak.

Could you check whether your system configuration's=20
bootloader-configuration actually contains a keyboard-layout=20
field?

       (bootloader (bootloader-configuration
                     (bootloader grub-efi-bootloader)
                     (target "/boot/efi")
       -->           (keyboard-layout keyboard-layout)))

The last time I tried adding this myself (granted: that was a year=20
ago) it broke my GRUB, so today I still type my passphrase once in=20
Qwerty and once in Dvorak.  Much secure!

Kind regards,

T G-R

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Hi,

during graphical installation I chose to encrypt my hard drive and to
use the colemak keyboard layout. After the system rebooted, typing the
passphrase in colemak didn't work and I got dropped into rescue
mode. The rescue mode is in qwerty, not colemak.

Best,

-- 
Damien Cassou

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losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill