[systemd-devel] [PATCH 0/2] (dracut) hwdb needed in early boot for some keyboards

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Alexander E. Patrakov at 13/11/13 16:49 did gyre and
gimble:
> 2013/11/13 Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov at gmail.com>:
>> Colin Guthrie wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In this bug report https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11645 a user is
>>> unable to enter their encrypted root password via a wireless keyboard
>>> connected with a Logitech, Inc. Unifying Receiver.
>>
>>
>> Just in case, I do have the same model of wireless keyboard and will
>> validate the bug (for the LUKS-password case) later today on my laptop.
>>
>> The keyboard does work on my desktop, but there's no initramfs there.
> 
> I hereby confirm that the wireless Logitech keyboard works for
> entering the LUKS password on the laptop, if one does not create a
> host-only initramfs. This is with dracut-031.


thanks for that. If it's easy enough for you to test, does it also work
with a host-only initrd?

Col


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