[distribution-discuss] keyboard layout selection

[Bernd Schemmer]

Hi,

the code to select the keyboard layout is okay for booting from CDROM 
but not optimal for booting from USB sticks or harddisks. In the later 
case it's possible to edit the bootenv.rc file and preset the keyboard 
layout to the prefered layout. Unfortunately the init scripts do not 
honour this setting.

Therefor the method live-fs-root should be changed:

Replace the line

kbd -s

with

      __KEYBOARD=`eeprom keyboard-layout | cut -f 2 -d "="`
        if [ "${__KEYBOARD}"x = "unknown"x ] ; then
          kbd -s
        else
          kbd -s "${__KEYBOARD}"
        fi

This code works as  before for CDROM boots but uses the eeprom setting 
keyboard-layout if it is set to a specific keyboard layout.

regards

Bernd

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