Bug 2500

Summary:	Non-US keymaps don't load if /usr is on separate partition
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	b.candler
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description b.candler 1999-05-03 09:35:45 UTC

Non-US keymaps don't load at boot time if /usr is on a separate partition, because rc.sysinit tries to do it before mounting filesystems. Note the line: if [ -n $KEYTABLE -a -d /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps ]; then So, need to defer the keymap selection until _after_ the filesystems have been mounted. Moving this section of code to where the clock is configured works. [This was on a system upgraded from RH5.2 to RH6.0, so the console/default.kmap file was not present]

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-05-03 15:02:59 UTC

they're loaded again by the keytable initscript later
on in the boot process. (the same place they were before....)