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Strange glitch when entering encryption password on start-up

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I setup a Fedora 18 VM tonight to test out the installer. Everything was fine and it is running great except for one small thing: When I go to enter my password on boot up to access my encrypted partition, it does a return after each keystroke kinda like this.. Please enter passcode for disk VBOX-HARDDISK (luks...)!:* Please enter passcode for disk VBOX-HARDDISK (luks...)!:** Please enter passcode for disk VBOX-HARDDISK (luks...)!:*** And so on. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Could it just be something that happens in VBOX but would be fine on a normal i (HowTos)

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