Luks passphrase wrong keyboard language

Technical Issues
#1

I have installed mabox on a laptop with encryption (LUKS).
My language is fr_CA and its close to the us keyboard, but not exactly.
When I boot I’m asked to enter the luks passphrase but the keyboard is not mapped to my language. Since I have few charaters in it that are not at the same place on the us keyboard, it makes typing the passphrase a little complicated.

I have modified the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to place the keyboard hook at the beginning. I recompiled it but no luck, it still is not using my keyboard layout.

here are my hooks in the mkinitcpio.conf :

HOOKS="base udev autodetect keyboard keymap modconf block consolefont encrypt openswap resume filesystems fsck"

This config should normally work but anybody can tell me why it doesn’t ???

Regards,
BT

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#2

Anybody has an answer ???

Is my question clear ???

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#3

Personally I have never used Luks while using linux.Maybe this can help some partially :
https://dev.getsol.us/T1216

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/no-keyboard-input-at-luks-passphrase-prompt/29592/3

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#4

Thanks for the hints.

I tried first to place the keyboard hook before the autodetect hook as it was said in archlinux wiki on mkinitcpio https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mkinitcpio_(Fran%C3%A7ais)#Hooks_communs but it doesn’t seem to change anything on Manjaro for the LUKS passphrase.

Then I tried to change vconsole.conf, add vconsole.keymap in the linux command line, added keylayouts to the grub_preload_modules, update-grub, …

Until now nothing seems to change the keyboard layout when asking for LUKS passphrase.

So I’m still looking for a solution to this.

Regards and thanks for the links,

          BT
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