Bug 585937

Summary: Wrong keyboard layout when doing a kickstart installation w/o keyboard
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Sascha Bendix <scrubb>
Component: system-config-keyboardAssignee: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: low    
Version: 12CC: jonathan, lkundrak, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Sascha Bendix 2010-04-26 13:40:33 UTC
If you do a kickstart installation and Fedora thinks there is no keyboard attached, it ignores the keyboard layout specified in the kickstart file.

Sample Kickstart file:

install #Alternative would be upgrade
url --url ftp://mirror.fraunhofer.de/download.fedora.redhat.com/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/x86_64/os
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard de-latin1
network --device eth0 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
firewall --disabled
selinux --disabled
timezone --utc Europe/Berlin
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append=" LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=de-latin1 rdblacklist=nouveau intel_iommu=off"
# Installation in text mode
text
# Reboot after installation
reboot
part swap --fstype="swap" --size=1000
part / --fstype="ext3" --size=5000 --grow

services --disabled=NetworkManager,auditd,mdmonitor,sendmail,avahi-daemon,lvm2-monitor,nvidia,rsyslog --enabled=ntpd,network,nscd,syslog-ng

%packages
@base

Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2010-04-26 17:33:22 UTC
anaconda doesn't do very much with keyboard setup in kickstart - we just pass the value on to system-config-keyboard.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-11-03 16:17:13 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2010-12-03 15:25:56 UTC
Fedora 12 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-12-02. Fedora 12 is 
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