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Beginner here. I noticed my keyboard was using different characters and went through a guide indicating how to change keyboard layouts. I thought I chose US correctly. In any case, I rebooted and tried logging in and it was not working. I tried typing the password in the login portion and noticed that when I typed "y" for "raspberry" it would just come out as a square character.

Is there a way to reset the keyboard layout?

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You can attempt to repair problems on the Pi by rebooting to a root shell.

  1. Append init=/bin/sh at the end of cmdline.txt and reboot. (This will need to be done on another computer.)
  2. After booting you will be at the prompt in a root shell.
  3. Your root file system is mounted as readonly now, so remount it as read/write
    mount -n -o remount,rw /

You can then edit files.

Running raspi-config should let you change keyboard etc.

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  • I went down a rabbit hole of dpkg-reconfigure, /etc/default/keyboard, and other such things but that "y" character would not come back. I just reinstalled the OS and now everything works and the keyboard layout is even correct. Go figure. Thanks for the help though! – kailoon Oct 23 '20 at 4:19

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