[Bug 203385] Re: Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

[Matthew H McKenzie]

Still an issue for me - Oneiric AMD64 Server.   The server CDs are not
really live CD's.

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Title:
  Recovery menu cannot be controlled with keyboard

Status in “friendly-recovery” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “friendly-recovery” source package in Intrepid:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  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.

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