Bugzilla – Bug 105690
Rescue system problems
Last modified: 2005-08-24 12:59:58 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?
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.
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 ;)
I'll probably going to insert faked locale, not sure yet.
works in beta-4 (*not* 3)