[syslinux] kbdmap module file format error

Kevin Landreth crackerjackmack at gmail.com
Thu Apr 9 06:47:23 PDT 2009


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>  Dag Wieers wrote:
>>
>>   I was excited to find the kbdmap module, but have some problems making
>>> it
>>>  work with keyboard mapping files that works fine with syslinux.
>>>
>>>
>> It's a bug; I pushed out 3.74-pre21 which fixes the bug.
>>
>
> I just tested 3.74-pre21 and discovered that an entry like:
>
>  label de
>    menu label ^German keyboard (de)
>    kernel kbdmap.c32 maps/de.ktl
>
> works from the menu, but not on the commandline. However using the command
> 'kbdmap' on the commandline it works fine
>
> ----
> boot: de
> Usage: kbdmap mapfile
> boot: kbdmap maps/de.ktl
> boot:
> ----
>
> Could this be another bug ?
>
> --
> --   dag wieers,  dag at wieers.com,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
> [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
>
> _______________________________________________
>

Dag,

Does it work when you use 'append' via the CLI?  I noticed this behavior as
well, and seemed to work fine with the append line added to my config file.

-- 
Kevin Landreth



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