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@rlogiacco

1. in your situation set initramfs to be always forced for boot - edit /etc/default/xbian-initramfs and variable FORCEINITRAM=yes . this will make sure inittamfs.gz will never be avoided on booting (otherwise XBian uses some kind of "smart" decision if initramfs should be used on next boot)

2. if your USB keyboard is USB but actually is not (standard HID driver doesn't work), copy drivers from /lib/modules/XXX/drivers/hid to initramfs. as CurlyMo told you edit /etc/xbian-initramfs/update-initramfs and there is even that line commented so go to line #136 and uncomment. then run as root

Code:

xbian-update-initramfs

after that your keyboard should be working in initramfs (but most likely not with SHIFT down feature to trigger initramfs as the initialisation takes long).

also as already has been told, if booting goes through initramfs, if ROOT is not available (or error mounting) you get recovery shell automatically.
(and if you put "ip=dhcp telnet" into cmdline.txt then you also get remote access to the recovery shell via telnet)