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

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

2013/11/13 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>:
> '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?

It doesn't, because (at least whe creating the initramfs without the
USB keyboard connected) it does not include the usbhid module.

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Alexander E. Patrakov