> How is the script going to know what live-CD you are going to boot next, > and > what character encoding defaults that live-CD uses? The idea was rather to check the current character encoding. However this doesn´t solve the problem. Passphrases should be made up of ASCII characters only. UTF8KEYBMODE=1 in initrd.conf does not solve the problem. Again, the use of Live-DVD/CD derives from the need for a maintenance environment to do the root encryption or manually run fsck if needed. For removable media it might be a fine thing to handle encrypted content on different Linux distros. > µ and ü seemed to have correct encoding in both text console and X > windows. > But not all distros use same encoding, Knoppix default: ISO8859-15, SUSE > default: UTF-8. Sure, both distros can display non-ASCII characters correctly but a created key might suffer portability. > You select some keyboard layout file at distro install time. Yes, and I also configured the kernel to have ISO-8859-15 built in. Later in the boot process something like this happens: Loading keymap i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz done Loading compose table latin1.add done Seems like dumpkeys lacks this compose table to be included in the default.kmap. I´m uncertain. > My current understanding is that keyboard mode is always ASCII at kernel > boot. Distro init scripts then change the default to something else. Yes I think so. I looked in kernel configuration for character devices and the console. There is no selection for UTF-8 or something else. In this case passphrases with non-ASCII chars are not supported at boot time and should be avoided. > UTF8KEYBMODE=1 in build-initrd.sh config sets keyboard to UTF-8 mode > before > passphrase is asked. This is what I wanted. I tried with different keys made from the SuSE console. It failed in all my attempts. I feel very discontent with the SuSE 10.2 release. To fix the changes they made lies beyond my skills. Thanks for your patience and assistance so far. Best regards, Peter -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
