Bug 43695 – dokeymap boot option not available on 2004.0 x86 livecds

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 02:05:19 UTC]

If a docdev can review?

[Comment 1 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 02:06:06 UTC]

Created attachment 26816 [details, diff]
patch to hb-install-medium.xml

[Comment 2 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 02:23:52 UTC]

I thought that the keymap selection was done automatically on boot now (at least it does on an experimental 2004.0 prelease LiveCD). 

Anyway, I wouldn't write the second "To load a keymap, use <c>loadkeys</c>." as you already mentioned that in the paragraph right above. Perhaps write something like "Now load the keymap of your choice:"?

[Comment 3 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 02:50:50 UTC]

Neither the keymap is selected automatically nor you can select one (like on the 1.4 LiveCD).

I just copied the loadkeys part from ppc ...

[Comment 4 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 02:51:39 UTC]

Created attachment 26830 [details, diff]
new patch to hb-install-medium.xml

So something like this?

[Comment 5 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 04:29:31 UTC]

If it's indeed using "loadkeys", then yes, this patch is correct. I'm still a bit hesitant though...

Sigh, I need (1) bandwidth to download LiveCDs and (2) a VMWare license :p

[Comment 6 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 06:21:18 UTC]

CC'ing release@g.o

Indeed, a VMWare License would be a cool thing ;)

[Comment 7 Gentoo LiveCD Package Maintainers 2004-03-04 08:01:01 UTC]

This looks good to me, however we should have fixed this bug :-/.

We'll see if we can fix it or apply a workaround in an init-script that asks the user something like "enter your keycode : de, be, fr...whatever". Thanks for the heads up, guys. Sorry that you have to clean up the mess we left...

[Comment 8 Pieter Van den Abeele (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 08:21:57 UTC]

Watch out for multi-arch keymap issues, if you're adding things to initscripts :-)

[Comment 9 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2004-03-05 00:28:21 UTC]

Shall i commit this patch and a) mark this as RESO/FIXED or b) reassign this bug to livecd@g.o?

[Comment 10 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-03-05 00:41:43 UTC]

Commit and reassign. Otherwise livecd@ has nothing to do :p

/me ducks

[Comment 11 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) 2004-03-05 00:56:27 UTC]

Committed, reasssigned to livecd@g.o

[Comment 12 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-03-07 11:55:44 UTC]

*** Bug 43973 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 13 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-03-22 02:30:42 UTC]

Will be (is already?) fixed in genkernel-3.0.2-rc1

[Comment 14 Benjamin Judas (RETIRED) 2004-03-22 02:45:35 UTC]

*** Bug 40353 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 15 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2004-03-30 17:37:41 UTC]

its fixed in the stable version of genkernel, so it will be fixed on the next livecds.