Bug#687159: grub-common: confirming #681197, keymap problem still exists

Colin Watson cjwatson at debian.org
Mon Sep 10 13:02:25 UTC 2012


On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 01:13:20PM +0100, Viktor Barczi wrote:
> GRUB does not seem to load keymaps other than the default. I tested  an
> encrypted lvm installation using  testing  i386 image, downloaded on 7 Sep
> 2012. I installed in expert mode with bootkbd=hu given at CD boot and during
> installation I selected the hungarian keymap. When booted the freshly installed
> system it didn't accept the password I gave, only when I typed it according to
> the default keyboard layout (I guess it's US).

At what point are you typing this password?  Surely that would be in the
running system, not in the boot loader; setting up the keyboard in time
for that is probably the responsibility of something like console-setup,
not GRUB.  GRUB keymaps only affect the boot loader itself.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]



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