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  1. Bug #1907952
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Comment 1 for bug 1907952

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Ryutaroh Matsumoto (emojifreak) wrote :

An easier way to reproduce the symptom was provided by Alper Nebi Yasak at
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976808#88

qemu-system-aarch64 \
    -display gtk -enable-kvm -machine virt -cpu host -m 1G -smp 2 \
    -kernel /boot/vmlinuz -initrd /boot/initrd.img \
    -append "break console=ttyAMA0"

Then, run cat on the initramfs shell and see arrow keys result in ^[ .
For x86_64, it's console=ttyS0 and ^[[A etc.