[syslinux] Selecting keyboard mappings in syslinux

Dag Wieers dag at wieers.com
Fri Aug 29 09:08:14 PDT 2008


On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Dag Wieers wrote:

> 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.
> -snip-
>>> Otherwise we have to create an ISO image that is identical except for the
>>> keyboard mapping.
>>>
>>> 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.
>
> I have now done this. I have duplicated the main isolinux.cfg file for
> every keyboard mapping that we want to have (also including uk, fr and
> us). That means I have 5 different files where the only line different is
> the prepended kbdmap-line.
>
> I also included labels for each that loads the correct config file,
> however when I now do that, I get:
>
> ----
> boot: de
> Loading auto... failed!
> Kernel load failure (insufficient memory?)
> boot:
> ----

Ok, drop this one. The problem was that I was using CONFIG with the 
keyboard mapping instead of the config file.

Thank God it's friday evening !

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