On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:59 AM, Karol Babioch <karol@babioch.de> wrote:
Has anyone experienced something like this already? What might be the problem here?
I have noticed that it sometimes takes some time (~1 second) before the keyboard starts working in the initramfs (on my MacBook Air at least, so this _might_ be specific to hid_apple, which would also affect your friend). I notice this when I boot with "break", and immediately type "exit" to continue booting. If I'm too quick it ends up as "xit". Btw, I didn't look into this, so it might not be a time delay, could also be that the first key-stroke is 'lost'. Something to check.
I thought of rewriting the "encrypt" hook to output the entered passphrase,
Sounds like a reasonable approach. -t