I tried to use recovery mode as follows:
- Restart, holding Shift
- In GRUB menu, select Advanced Options, then
Ubuntu, with Linux 4.8.0-34-generic (recovery mode) - Press enter to get the root shell prompt
Now I cannot type certain characters, such as w or x.
I suppose the keyboard layout got selected wrongly, but how to fix this?
One idea was to press e before selecting the recovery mode to edit the launch commands. But I do not know what to do here. I hope someone can enlighten me on how to set a generic functioning keyboard here, or suggest another solution.
PS: This was originally posted because of a lost password. I fixed this with a clean reinstall. But the original problem with the unusable recovery mode is still there.
