Bug 983872

Summary: one keyboard in rescue mode
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: François Patte <francois.patte>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: anaconda-maint-list, dshea, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mkolman, rcyriac, sbueno, stephent98, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description François Patte 2013-07-12 07:22:14 UTC
Description of problem:When you enter in rescue mode you canot choose the keyboard: only qwerty keyboard is available


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fedoara 18


How reproducible: try to rescue a system


Steps to Reproduce:
1.load install disk and ask for rescue mode
2.
3.

Actual results: no keyboard selection


Expected results: be able to choose language and appropriate keyboard


Additional info:

Comment 1 Steve Tyler 2013-07-12 17:30:37 UTC
You may be able to configure your keyboard and language from the kernel command line:

Press "Tab" at "Rescue a Fedora system".
Append "keymap=fr".
Append "lang=fr"

See also the localectl command:
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/localectl.html

This appears to be a duplicate:
Bug 837377 - rescue image (from PXE) don't ask for keyboard

Tested with:
$ qemu-kvm -m 4096 -hda f19-test-1.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F19/Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso -vga std -boot menu=on

Comment 2 François Patte 2013-07-13 07:07:23 UTC
Using Tab key and append these options works, but the text is ugly: scrambled with a lot of AE§@... everywhere and can hardly be read.

I tried fr_FR-utf8 without any success...

Now, the possibility to choose language and keyboard in rescur mode was present in older version of anaconda, why this possibility has disappeared?

using localectl seems to be usable only when the system is up not for rescue.

Comment 3 Steve Tyler 2013-07-13 08:06:35 UTC
(In reply to François Patte from comment #2)
> Using Tab key and append these options works, but the text is ugly:
> scrambled with a lot of AE§@... everywhere and can hardly be read.

I noticed that with F18, too. Have you tried F19? F19 seems to work better:
https://fedoraproject.org/fr/get-fedora

> I tried fr_FR-utf8 without any success...

Thanks for your report. With F19, all of these work:
lang=fr
lang=fr_FR
lang=fr_FR.UTF-8

They all result in this:
# echo $LANG
fr_FR.UTF-8

But localectl is inconsistent with those:
# localectl list-locales | grep fr_FR | grep -i utf
fr_FR.utf8

> Now, the possibility to choose language and keyboard in rescur mode was
> present in older version of anaconda, why this possibility has disappeared?

It was last in F16. I don't know what the plan is for this feature, so I asked the developer in Bug 837377, Comment 5.

> using localectl seems to be usable only when the system is up not for rescue.

With F19, it seems to work somewhat, but it is not very convenient.

There may be several bugs here ...

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