USB Keyboard does not work until after booting

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • USB keyboard does not work until after the machine is fully booted.
  • USB keyboard does not work after GRUB and before the console / gdm login screen.
  • USB keyboard does not work at LUKS password prompt when entering passphrase for disk decryption.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • dracut packages older than dracut-004-336.el6

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