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Dirk Sohler

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 109

LUKS prompt "hidden" in other bootup text …

I have a strange problem with LUKS (this affects non-LUKS boots too, but there i don't care, because i don't need to make any input *g*). The input prompt for the password is "hidden" in other text that is there if i boot the machine. I can't describe it that good, so i made a screenshot with my cellphone camera.

Besides it looks like this it works as expected. But do someone have an idea for getting the LUKS password input prompt below this text or how to remove the old text?

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Dirk Sohler

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 109

Re: LUKS prompt "hidden" in other bootup text …

*bump*

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schuay

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From: Austria

Registered: 2008-08-19

Posts: 564

Re: LUKS prompt "hidden" in other bootup text …

Yeah this has been going on since a while (2 or 3 past kernel versions).

I agree this is pretty annoying No idea how to fix it though.
Happens both with and without 'quiet' in the kernel line.

jac

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Registered: 2009-05-19

Posts: 431

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Re: LUKS prompt "hidden" in other bootup text …

There was another thread about this recently, and in it something was suggested to be patched. I can't remember what, though. I don't really think it got anywhere. You can probably find it, I actually thought this was it, it could have the same thread name.

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: LUKS prompt "hidden" in other bootup text …

Try booting with vga= in your kernel line. This of course if you don't use kms.
You you need to figure out which number to to put in front of vga= because I believe it is not equal for every graphics card.

This will boot your pc in a framebuffer mode, with that I don't see the messages overwriting each other.

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Dirk Sohler

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From: Hamburg, Germany

Registered: 2009-10-03

Posts: 109

Re: LUKS prompt "hidden" in other bootup text …

Try booting with vga= in your kernel line. This of course if you don't use kms.

Ich do, and i want do keep it as it is with KMS.

There must be a different solution than disabling a wanted feature

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R00KIE

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Re: LUKS prompt "hidden" in other bootup text …

Then I guess the only option is to patch the kernel not to output some (or all) the messages it outputs during startup, can't help you much there (I'm still learning my way through system configuration, making/changing pkgbuilds, I know a little bit of C but nothing that would enable me to hack any modern program, specially the kernel) but I guess maybe you should take a look at which patches (or config options) other distros apply to their kernels to make then more quiet.

Maybe someone with more experience regarding the kernel configuration can give you some help or tips, with arch this clearly falls within the user customization category, also it might be a little bug/regression in the kernel itself but as this isn't a show stopper devs just concentrate on fixing more urgent problems.

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