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    Keyboard remapping for entering commands in boot prompt

    I can't figure out how this works.

    I have made finnish keymap
    Code:
    keytab-lilo fi-latin1 > fi.kbd
    and tried to use it and / or replace original german.kbd in /boot/isolinux directory with this. Anyhow I can't find e.g. characters = and / where they should be in finnish keyboard. So my fi.kbd (or renamed fi.kbd to german.kbd) don't work.

    Of course, I have added lang=fi in APPEND line in /boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg and modified /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig:

    Code:
    ### localization
    # Allow language specification via commandline. The default language
    # will be overridden via "lang=de" boot commandline
    LANGUAGE="$(getbootparam lang 2>/dev/null)"
    [ -n "$LANGUAGE" ] || LANGUAGE="fi"
    
    # The default language/keyboard to use. This CANNOT be autoprobed.
    # Most of these variables will be used to generate the KDE defaults
    # and will be inserted into /etc/sysconfig/* below.
    case "$LANGUAGE" in
    fi)
    # Finnish version
    LANGUAGE="fi"  # ISO 639
    COUNTRY="fi"
    LANG="fi_FI@euro"
    KEYTABLE="fi-latin1"
    XKEYBOARD="fi"
    KDEKEYBOARD="fi"
    CHARSET="iso8859-15"
    KDEKEYBOARDS="se,en_US" # Additional KDE Keyboards
    TZ="Europe/Helsinki"
    ;;
    I have also tried to use fi instead of fi-latin1 but have not succeeded.

    Is there something else to be modified? I have noticed many questions in this forum concerning keyboard-mapping for syslinux not no one have given a good answer yet. This is very important thing to me because I have made finnish remastering of Knoppix called "SuomiKnoppix" (Finnish Knoppix) and also this should be settled down before publishing a stable version of it.


    -tapsa-[/b]

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    Just find out that I must add line
    KBDMAP fi.kbd
    in isolinux.cfg file. It really works.

    I noticed also one more thing:
    If I boot lang=us, the language of KDE is still finnish because of finnish keyboard file. So I must add keyboard=us too to the boot prompt to get KDE in us language.


    -tapsa-

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