Bug 1225299 - systemd-boot doesn't display passphrase prompt for decryption until a key is pressed
Summary: systemd-boot doesn't display passphrase prompt for decryption until a key is ...
Status: NEW
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Product: openSUSE Tumbleweed
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Bootloader (show other bugs)
Version: Current
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Bootloader Maintainers
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Reported: 2024-05-26 20:28 UTC by David B
Modified: 2024-07-04 20:19 UTC (History)
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no prompt (3.94 MB, image/jpeg)
2024-05-26 20:28 UTC, David B 		Details
when key pressed (4.37 MB, image/jpeg)
2024-05-26 20:28 UTC, David B 		Details
when escape pressed (2.23 MB, image/jpeg)
2024-05-26 20:28 UTC, David B 		Details
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Description David B 2024-05-26 20:28:17 UTC 
Created attachment 875117 [details]
no prompt

Installed TW with systemd-boot on my laptop about a month ago. It has 1 drive (nvme), it has one partition for /boot/efi, one for root and an encrypted partition for /home, no LVM.

When booting the kernel messages just stop and there's no indicator asking to enter the passphrase for /home partition unless I press a key, then the prompt "Please enter passphrase for disk..." appears. Or if I press escape then it displays this gray semi-graphical screen with the same message.

The kernel command line contains 'splash=silent quiet' and Plymouth is installed, I didn't do any configuration there but it's not displayed, just plain kernel messages when booting.

It would be nice to have a better passphrase prompt especially on a 14" 2880x1800 screen where the kernel messages are tiny.
Comment 1 David B 2024-05-26 20:28:46 UTC 
Created attachment 875118 [details]
when key pressed
Comment 2 David B 2024-05-26 20:28:58 UTC 
Created attachment 875119 [details]
when escape pressed
Comment 3 David B 2024-06-06 19:56:11 UTC 
After updating and trying to boot a new kernel version Plymouth is displayed for those new kernel versions so out of the box when installing the OS something is not set up for it to be displayed.
Comment 4 Alberto Planas Dominguez 2024-07-01 15:00:25 UTC 
You mean that you installed Plymouth later?
Comment 5 David B 2024-07-04 20:19:58 UTC 
(In reply to Alberto Planas Dominguez from comment #4)
> You mean that you installed Plymouth later?

No, it was preinstalled if I remember right. I selected the "Desktop with KDE Plasma" and didn't change any of the packages.

So, after OS installation Plymouth didn't seem to be set up for the kernel that came with the OS installation. After updating to the latest snapshot which had a new kernel version Plymouth seems to work how it should for that new kernel.