Bug 105690

Summary: Rescue system problems
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0 Reporter: Martin Møller <martin>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P5 - None Keywords: I18N, Install, Localization
Version: Beta 2   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
URL: http://www.martinm-76.dk/bugs/SL10-Beta2-bug-rescue-keymap.jpg
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Description Martin Møller 2005-08-18 21:37:06 UTC 
When I launch the Rescue System from boot.iso in SL10 Beta2 I have a couple of
issues, depending on the path I took:

Path 1:
1) Selected Language -> Dansk
2) Selected Source to be the DVD
3) Selected to launch the rescue system

Result: The system launched, but I was never prompted for keyboard setup and
ended up with american keylayout.

Path 2:
1) Let Language be at English
2) Selected Source to be the DVD
3) Selected to launch the rescue system
4) Selected the danish keyboard map

Result: Upon login, I can see the keymap has been altered, but the locale seems
to be wrong. The keymap is generating UTF-8 keypresses, but the locale is set to
straight POSIX.

I have linked to a picture of path 2. I have also verified that the locale is
also POSIX when using path 1. I seem to recall the keymapping working when using
path 2 in Beta1?

Question 1: Why is the keymap dialog skipped when selecting e.g. 'dansk', and if
you skip it, shouldn't you set the keyboard layout to the most common one for
that language?

Question 2: Shouldn't the locale be set to UTF-8 encoding at all times?
Comment 1 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-22 15:19:47 UTC 
Ok, should be a bit better now. 
 
linuxrc does not prompt for a keymap if you selected a language != en 
at the boot screen. It uses the default keymap for that language. 
 
Dansk had an us map assigned as default. That's fixed. 
 
There's presently no locale data in the rescue system, so it sticks to POSIX.
Comment 2 Martin Møller 2005-08-22 16:21:31 UTC 
Okay. Thanks. I hope the rescue system will be using latin1 or be able to
interpret UTF-8, then. Other than that, I am very happy ;)
Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-22 16:26:39 UTC 
I'll probably going to insert faked locale, not sure yet.
Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-08-24 12:59:58 UTC 
works in beta-4 (*not* 3)