Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:14:07 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: change default keymap for /boot/loader? Message-ID: <20100817211407.3f4cef09.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100817131543.GA4937@freebsd.org> References: <20100817131543.GA4937@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:15:43 +0000, Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:
> hi there,
>
> just wanted to ask if there's a way to change the default US keymap for
> /boot/loader to something else?
>
> i have
>
> options UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
> makeoptions UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP="german.iso"
>
> in my kernel conf, however this doesn't seem to apply to /boot/loader.
I have noted this behaviour already in FreeBSD 7; in 5, I had
both german settings for AT and USB keyboard - WORKING. Maybe
support has been dropped? Is ignored? Hmmm...
Anyway, I never noticed the boot loader was interested in that
setting. It became active when booting into single user mode
("boot -s", which had to be entered according to the US keymap).
This is the whole set of options for the kernel:
options SC_DFLT_FONT
makeoptions SC_DFLT_FONT=iso
options ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
makeoptions ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP="german.iso"
options UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP
makeoptions UKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP="german.iso"
I also included the ISO font for the syscons driver so the german
specific letters could be displayed.
Coming back to your basic question: I don't think there's a way to
modify the early stage loader keymap.
--
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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