Bug 534856

Summary: The default keyboard layout setting during installation should be based on selection in grub
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Forgotten User tCnyPY8iPq <forgotten_tCnyPY8iPq>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Minor    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: bruno, michel.munnix
Version: Milestone 6   
Target Milestone: Milestone 7   
Hardware: x86-64   
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Description Forgotten User tCnyPY8iPq 2009-08-27 16:11:28 UTC 
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When you boot from the install DVD, grub shows up.
Pressing F2 you can change the language and keyboard layout.
If you do so, during the installation your selected language will be used as default language for the first step of the installation. This is ok.
The same is not true for the keyboard layout: you can change that in grub, but you'll get always the default keyboard layout for your language in the first screen of the installation.
This has an obvious and easy workaround (change again the layout to what you want in the first screen of installation), so it's a minor bug.


Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Tim Fechtner 2009-09-14 08:08:14 UTC 
Seems to work fine in M7
Comment 2 Forgotten User tCnyPY8iPq 2009-10-02 07:15:13 UTC 
I tested in M8 and it doesn't work.

Steps to reproduce:
1) In GRUB select Italian as language, and USA keyboard
2) Select Install from the grub menu
Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2009-10-02 12:31:04 UTC 
It doesn't work for all languages. I still need to sort out all the mapping
strings. Glad you reminded me. :-)
Comment 4 Steffen Winterfeldt 2009-10-06 13:45:19 UTC 
*** Bug 136028 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Bruno Friedmann 2009-10-06 16:13:58 UTC 
check also my comment from but 1360128.

and make the following test use French or German as language and keyboard for switzerland (fr_CH, de_CH)
Comment 6 Steffen Winterfeldt 2009-10-07 14:44:53 UTC 
updated keyboard tables
Comment 7 Bruno Friedmann 2009-10-07 15:35:11 UTC 
Did this also usable in the grub menu ? 

The patch is coming in factory directly or we see this only on M9/R1 ?
Comment 8 Steffen Winterfeldt 2009-10-08 12:18:01 UTC 
should be in factory; or system:install:head also produces a test iso, iirc
Comment 9 Bruno Friedmann 2009-10-10 09:32:16 UTC 
Hi Steffen, It's nice to see more useable keyboard now in grub or install.

I've just one missing ( french switzerland keyboard ) it's pretty the same as german swiss keyboard but all accentuated characters are swapped ).

It's just annoying here for noobs to retrieve easily what they use (especially for password which are masked )

Can we have this also and beat the other distro ... ?
Comment 10 Bruno Friedmann 2009-10-10 09:51:11 UTC 
Another related question, is how can we setup the default keyboard for grub ?
For example I used French as default language but want Swiss german keybord.

I don't see an option in yast2 bootloader, so I presume we need to add something to menu.lst ? 

Thank you much in advance !
Comment 11 Steffen Winterfeldt 2009-10-12 09:01:32 UTC 
E.g. 'gfxboot --change-config boot::keymap=sg-latin1'.

Eventually it would be nice to have yast-bootloader do it but it's pretty
late for 11.2.
Comment 12 Steffen Winterfeldt 2009-10-12 09:28:21 UTC 
added french swiss layout
Comment 13 Bruno Friedmann 2009-10-12 09:30:53 UTC 
Yeah top cool Steffen.

Remember to ping me next fosdem or OSC for a beer :-)