Jari Ruusu wrote:
> "peter k." wrote:
> > Jari could you maybe implement a feature for selecting the keyboard language
> > which is used when entering the password? Having to type "z" instead of "y"
> > and vice versa because of my qwertz-keyboard is annoying!
>
> I assume you are using encrypted root partition and using initrd.gz built by
> build-initrd.sh
>
> Ok, request noted. It's also ok to send in a patch.
A patch to load national keyboard layout _before_ asking root partition
passphrase is below. Patch is for loop-AES-v1.5b version.
Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>
--- build-initrd.sh.old Wed Dec 12 20:09:35 2001
+++ build-initrd.sh Sun Jan 13 21:47:23 2002
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
#
# build-initrd.sh
#
-# Written by Jari Ruusu, December 12 2001
+# Written by Jari Ruusu, January 13 2002
#
# Copyright 2001 by Jari Ruusu.
# Redistribution of this file is permitted under the GNU Public License.
@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@
# temporary loop device index used in this script, 7 == /dev/loop7
TEMPLOOPINDEX=7
+# 1 = load national keyboard layout, 0 = don't load
+# You _must_ manually copy correct keyboard layout to /boot/default.kmap
+LOADNATIONALKEYB=0
+
if [ $# = 1 ] ; then
if [ ! -f $1 ] ; then
@@ -174,6 +178,12 @@
goto fail4;
}
+#if ${LOADNATIONALKEYB}
+ buf[0] = 0;
+ strCat(buf, "/lib/loadkeys /lib/default.kmap");
+ exeWait(buf);
+#endif
+
#if ${USEMODULE}
uname(&un);
buf[0] = 0;
@@ -322,7 +332,10 @@
z="/sbin/losetup"
if [ ${USEMODULE} == 1 ] ; then
- z="/sbin/insmod /sbin/losetup"
+ z="${z} /sbin/insmod"
+fi
+if [ ${LOADNATIONALKEYB} == 1 ] ; then
+ z="${z} "`which loadkeys`
fi
for x in ${z} ; do
echo Copying ${SOURCEROOT}${x} to ${DESTINATIONROOT}${DESTINATIONPREFIX}
-
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