After a few updates ago , my computer as it boots up and asks for the hard disk encryption passphrase the menu is completely unreadable. This doesn't bother me too much, but I am curious if there is a solution for this. I noticed that once, I had to hard power off my machine and when It came back asking for the drive password it was displaying this menu clearly.
If this doesn't make sense I can provide and example of what this looks like.
thanks !
I encountered this same problem today.
Garbled console text in initramfs for dm-crypt luks encryption prompt.
I am using Arch Linux, but the symptoms are the same as you're describing. I have full disk luks encryption enabled on my Thinkpad laptop. The prompts from dm-crypt in initramfs (and it would seem all console text from initramfs) are garbled, mangled, and unreadable.
The solution on my Thinkpad was to add an intel graphics driver when building the initial RAM disk.
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
MODULES="i915"
It would appear the answer in Ubuntu may be similar. Add the proper graphics driver when building initramfs. I assume this issue presented itself to you "after a few updates" because one of those updates triggered a rebuild of initramfs without the necessary video driver.
You will most likely need to verify which video driver is necessary for your situation.
See some example articles here explaining how to add modules to initramfs in Ubuntu.
The file /etc/initramfs-tools/modules is used to include modules in initramfs ... If you add any modules name there, you need to run sudo update-initramfs -u command to update your currently used initramfs files.
