Jorge Martínez López <jorgeml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 2013/2/2 Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Greetings. I just did a "fedup" upgrade from f17 to f18. The
>> system is now up and running, mostly just fine, but I did notice a brief
>> warning message during boot to the effect that KEYTABLE is deprecated.
>>
>> I've seen some mention of this on the web, and it appears that a
>> solution MIGHT be to replace the word KEYTABLE with the word KEYMAP in
>> the appropriate place or places. In another place I've seen it suggested
>> that there are TWO changes that are required:
>>
>> KEYTABLE --> vconsole.keymap
>> SYSFONT --> vconsole.font
>>
>> I do see the term KEYTABLE in one place in my /boot partition:
>>
>> # pwd
>> /boot
>>
>> # find . -type f -exec grep -i keytable {} /dev/null \;
>> ./efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf: kernel /vmlinuz-3.7.4-204.fc18.x86_64
>> rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 root=UUID=20ccc8f9-c293-4fba-888d-fd54f476d36a
>> KEYTABLE=us acpi=off noapic SYSFONT=True rd.luks=0 ro LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>> rhgb quiet nouveau.modeset=0 rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau
>> .
>> .
>> .
>>
>> It would be easy enough to edit grub.conf to substitute vconsole.keymap (or
>> KEYMAP?) for KEYTABLE and vconsole.font (or FONT?) for SYSFONT. Is that
>> the right thing to do? And/or is there anything else that needs to happen?
>>
>
> You need to make the changes in /etc/default/grub, and then update the
> Grub configuration. If you make the changes in /boot they will be
> overwritten the next time you update the kernel.
>
> So,
> 1. Make the changes in /etc/default/grub
> 2. Run grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/redhat/grub.conf (<--- only UEFI
> systems)
>
> And that's it!
Thanks, Jorge. That's very helpful. Unfortunately, it appears that the fedup
procedure doesn't provide the file /etc/default/grub, but I did find some
words about creating one at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedUp#Updating_GRUB_.28UEFI_systems.29
-- Mike
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