[syslinux] Selecting keyboard mappings in syslinux

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>> Dag Wieers wrote:
>>
>>> Would it be possible to create com32 that can reload the keyboard map ?
>>> It would be more practical for Live CDs as well.
>> It's not possible at the moment, but wouldn't be all that hard to add.
> 
> Coming back to this feature.
> 
> For the successor of RIPLinux (at least the non-X version) I am looking 
> for a way to select the keyboard from syslinux (menu or advanced menu) so 
> that it becomes active in syslinux as well as adds/changes a command line 
> option (keyb=XX) to every entry.
> 
> I guess that last part would be harder, unless we have macros or a 
> scripted configfile generator. Any ideas are welcome ?
> 

Either macros, or the complex menu system (or the moral equivalent
thereof.)  I've been thinking about how to implement macros lately.

	-hpa