Full Disk Encryption: How To Enable Multiple Password Attempts In Grub

I am using full-disk encryption pretty much set up like described in this guide.

I works nicely except for the fact that I am bad at typing passwords. So occasionally I am typing it wrong and grub drops me to a rescue shell.

I then hit ctrl-alt-del to reboot, which feels unclean and is a bit annoying as it takes a couple of seconds. So I was wondering if there was a cleaner way, such as configuring grub to allow multiple attempts or something similar.

Obviously a minor issue, but if anyone knows a little trick please share it.


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