[syslinux] Selecting keyboard mappings in syslinux

[Dag Wieers]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Dag Wieers wrote:
>
>> Having the unfortunate disadvantage to live in a country that uses the
>> Belgian keyboard (azerty, much like French keyboards) and being in a
>> corporate merge with Germany (qwertz) causes a problem to work with a
>> single syslinux-based ISO image.
>>
>> But the German colleagues require the German keyboard mappings, or at
>> least US-layout. So we are basicly looking for a way to reload the
>> keyboard in syslinux. By means of a menu entry or keyboard shortcut.
>>
>> Any solutions I have missed ? :-)
>
> Use a menu which loads a new config file (via the CONFIG option).  The
> new config file can have an appropriate KBDMAP option.

In that case we have to generate the config-files for each different 
keyboard map or create identical minimal config files for each keyboard 
that all include all the other cruft.

Would it be possible to create com32 that can reload the keyboard map ?
It would be more practical for Live CDs as well.

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