In the LiveCDs, Keymap selection should not require me to type "gentoo dokeymap" at the isolinux prompt, and instead ask me for a keymap without needing to use any letters. The Slackware CD, for example, asks you every time you load it's LiveCD it asks you to press 1 to select a non-US keymap, and asks you for the number of the keymap you wish to use. The Debian-installer CD, as another example, you scroll through the list of keymaps, and select one. Yes, I know that when you type "gentoo dokeymap" I only have to type numbers to select my keymap, but this menu should appear every time the livecd is used. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: n/a Actual Results: n/a Expected Results: The LiveCD should run by default with "gentoo dokeymap".
I'm just curious, but why do you think so? I much prefer a LiveCD that is non-interactive. Perhaps if we were to do something like "To change your keymap press 1 in the next 5 seconds." and have it timeout then continue booting.
Yeah, a timeout would work, just make it something like 10-15 seconds.
This definitely will not get fixed by the next release (just to let you know) since we've already feature frozen and are now in QA/bug fix mode. I am reassigning to genkernel@gentoo.org so they can investigate this, as I think it is a much better idea than the current dokeymap solution.
I modified my patch to generkenel to do a read -t 30 -p ... so it will try to read the keymap and then timeout after 30 seconds. I also modified catalyst to use genkernel's --do-keymap-auto when building the kernel. This means that the keymap selection should display no matter what, with a 30 second timeout. How does that sound?
OK... 30 seconds is too long... changed to 15 seconds
OK... 10 seconds... and this is the default for 2004.3 now... enjoy
