Comment 2 for bug 468208

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jott (ottjochen) wrote : Re: cryptsetup passphrase prompt at boot not working if waiting too long

Unfortunately, the solution that you suggest, Christoph, does not work for me: once I have waited too long, none of the three attempts you have to enter the correct passphrase will work.

Another update: this also affects recovery mode. In my case, I was *unable* to start in recovery mode at all (the timing seems to be even worse here). The only solution I had was to edit the grub boot line manually to add something like "init=/bin/bash" to get a recovery console ...