My Debian journey on the Pinebook Pro

[schwarzwieweiss]

Here's the guide so far:

https://www.kulesz.me/post/150_devuan_pinebookpro/

However, one last big challenge remains: I am unable to enter the disk encryption password on the console (not even blindly) but have to use the serial console for that. It seems like the screen gets enabled in init instead of initramfs.

Any ideas how this can be fixed? Do you have the same issue @as400 ?

Thanks for the guide.

Try adding console=tty0 to your APPEND line in extlinux.conf

In my experience, it works like this for the prompt to decrypt /:

• no "console=" -> password prompt on serial console
  
• "console=tty0" -> password prompt on display
  
• "console=tty0 console=ttyS2,1500000" -> password prompt on serial console
  
• "console=ttyS2,1500000 console=tty0" -> password prompt on display
  

So it seems that the last "console=" specifies where the password prompt goes and without any such parameter, the prompt goes to the serial console.