Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: friendly-recovery
After upgrading a clean Dapper installation in kvm to Hardy, Gnome did not
start correctly. To get access to the system I tried to boot in recovery mode,
using the 2.6.24-12 kernel. This resulted in a graphical menu, which was
supposed to give me three choices. Unfortunately, I could not control the menu.
The arrow keys did not move between the three options, but simply wrote
characters over the menu. As the default option is to continue a normal boot
process, I was lost and could not enter recovery mode.
A second reboot in recovery mode using the hardy kernel gave the same result.
Finally, a new reboot, now using the Dapper kernel (2.6.15-51-386) recovery
mode, gave a correct looking menu, that could be controlled with the keyboard
and finally gave me root access to the system.
As the recovery mode is the last resort in case of problems, it must be
guaranteed to work. If it is not 100% certain the menu can be controlled
by keyboard correctly on all different systems, then in my opinion the
"drop in root shell" option must be the first option in the menu, so it
can be entered by just pressing enter.
The attached image shows the menu after pressing the up and down arrow a
few times.
** Affects: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/203385
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