I think it would be nice to have an option to pass to genkernel that would build an init image with an alternate keymap (it is awesome to be able to choose among some, but for an installation I think it would be nice to have a fixed one according to the keyboard I use). So I could do --keymap=dvorak and the init image would have it. The reason for wanting this feature here is that when having an alternative (very different keyboard) it gets very problematic in the following two cases: - Something goes wrong during boot and you get a shell to solve the problem, like when not being able to mount a partition. - When you have an encrypted partition, it'll ask for the password. Having to guess-type a password is a pain. In those cases, the service keymap hasn't been brought up yet. Related bugs are: bug #144879 where I state that mounting partitions happen way before keymaps. No clear solution was given. The bug was marked duplicate of bug #90482 but I don't believe that makes much sense. bug #144902 where I state that keymap, localmount and checkfs dependencies can't be changed to make keymap happen before localmount and checkfs. It was marked as a duplicate of bug #90482 which shows that critical services (localmount and checkfs) just don't respect dependencies and there's no way for keymaps to happen before them. I also had the idea that Linux itself may have different keymaps, maybe an option an build or at boot time. I was pointed by Linux's developers that the right solution is to set it up with an init image: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7046 I don't agree completely, not all distributions just build an init image at each install, but for Gentoo it applies, so it would be nice for genkernel to provide such a functionality. BTW, genkernel rules! It saved me a lot of time and I bet it built a kernel much better than the one I could have built.
Erm, dvorak keymap is already there. See /usr/share/genkernel/generic/keymaps.tar.gz and genkernel --help.
I see a lot of different keyboards maps and I see that there's Dvorak. But I don't see how to choose a default keymap when running genkernel. I haven't seen that option in either genkernel --help or genkernel's man page, how is it named ?
For the record you can pass options like "dokeymap keymap=de" in Grub to specify a keymap for an initramfs created by genkernel. I tested with with genkernel 3.4.10.907.
