bugGNU GRUB - Bugs: bug #56233, Making keyboard layout reliable

 
 

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bug #56233: Making keyboard layout reliable

Submitter:  Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e>
Submitted:  Sun 28 Apr 2019 08:30:05 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Booting Severity:  Major
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Feature Request
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Originator Name:  Alberto Salvia Novella
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  Git master
Release:  Reproducibility:  Every Time
Planned Release:  None

Sun 09 Feb 2020 06:10:00 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hello,
That same issue was discussed on Calamares's github, issue 1203, here the technical solution I suggest:
https://github.com/calamares/calamares/issues/1203#issuecomment-583853997
Namely:
- setting a new variable in NVRAM, which would contain the preferred keyboard layout. (this requires a small change in GRUB)
- adding all keyboard layouts to the EFI grub image (should be done by the distro, no work required from grub)
The difficulty solved:
- when /boot is encrypted, the keyboard layout files are not accessible
( distros ship a binary EFI image that gets updated now and then, so they have to take care of the inclusion of the required layouts in the binary itself, so that these layouts are available at early stage.)

 Joel Stienlet <joelstienlet>
Sun 28 Apr 2019 08:30:05 PM UTC, original submission:  

I have a non USA keyboard. If in my Linux distro I set full disk encryption using special characters the password won't work on next boot basically because GRUB will have a different keyboard layout than when I set the encryption password, effectively locking any non USA user out of their systems.

Also I tried making a custom keyboard layout for GRUB, and the system was no longer able to boot. I see there's a bug report about it on this bug tracker.

Instructions for that are:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/751259/how-to-change-grub-command-line-grub-shell-keyboard-layout

Ideally the command "update-grub" shall get the keyboard layout from the system and automatically apply it to GRUB. Alternatively there should be a command to set the layout.

 Alberto Salvia Novella <es20490446e>

 

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