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tsv

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Registered: 2008-12-03

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[SOLVED] No keyboard on booting fresh install (encrypted LVM)

I've just installed Arch (x86_64) on my desktop again, and used LVM on top of a single encrypted partition (with boot separate and unencrypted). Everything seemed to go okay, but when I boot and am prompted for a passphrase to unlock the hard drive, my keyboard ceases to work.

The NumLock key is lit until just before, so I think something messes it up, rather than it never working to start with. I thought maybe it was something keymap-related (as this is loaded just before) so I removed "keymap" from HOOKS in mkinitcpio.conf and deleted my choice in rc.conf but this had no effect.

Other than that I'm not sure where to go from here, I've tried the very obvious of unplugging and replugging the keyboard, but that was no help.

Any help appreciated!

EDIT: Just noticed the wiki article on encryption, which mentions adding "usbinput" to HOOKS. Didn't help.

EDIT: Solved. I forgot to append the ".img" to the end of the mkinitcpio args.

Last edited by tsv (2010-08-19 14:05:54)

duke11235

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Registered: 2009-10-09

Posts: 221

Re: [SOLVED] No keyboard on booting fresh install (encrypted LVM)

What exactly do you mean? I have the same problem fresh off encrypted install. Thanks