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After my upgrade to Debian 6 (Squeeze), the keyboard layout used to enter the password of encrypted filesystem has been changed. How can I revert it back to previous one?

My understanding is that, before the encrypted filesystem gets unlocked, the only active partition is /boot, therefore such a setting should be there somewhere. However, after extensive Internet searching and grepping /boot, I've not been able to find it.

I've also tried to reconfigure the keyboard layout used by the console, running:

dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

...and:

dpkg-reconfigure console-data

...with no effect.

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    If you have an encrypted root filesystem, you'll have to get setting the keymap to be part of the initramfs. I don't think thats done by default. Off-topic here, though; belongs on unix I suspect. – derobert Jul 1 '11 at 18:58
  • Thanks Caleb. That was it. I did this link, and it worked. – Elena Jul 2 '11 at 23:25
  • @Elna: Please add an short answer below with a summary of how you fixed the problem and after the timeout mark it as "accepted". That is how SE sites keep track of what answers are solved. – Caleb Jul 6 '11 at 19:55
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You need to customize your initramfs. Take a look at the update-initramfs manpage as one possible starting point.

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