Bug 532265

Summary:	Unusable text mode boot after preupgrade F11 to f12
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mark van Rossum <mvanross>
Component:	preupgrade	Assignee:	Richard Hughes <richard>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	12	CC:	wwoods
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Description Mark van Rossum 2009-10-31 23:11:16 UTC

Description of problem:
After running the latest preupgrade, and upgrading from f11 to f12
grub.conf
contained
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-96.fc12.i686 ro root=...  quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us

The problem with these boot settings is that in text mode booting, it becomes 
impossible to enter passwords for encrypted partitions.
The keyboard map might be screwed up, backspace does not work, and sometimes the actual password appears on the screen rather than '****'

The solution is to remove the KEYTABLE and LANG options in the boot command, or use the graphical boot, rhgb and vga=0x318

This is on a lenovo t61p laptop.

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How reproducible:
I'm not gonna try it again...

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Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 14:48:10 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2010-04-16 14:34:55 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 4 seth vidal 2010-11-04 16:46:40 UTC

not sure what else can be done here.