From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: After installing Fedora Core 1 on my old i586, booting with the bootdisk.img diskette, starting with boot: linux isa text expert reboot=bios, with only "text based internet" selected in the package groups, and after selecting keyboard layout "be-latin1" during the installation process, I end up with some other console keyboard layout. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Take an old i586, and blow off the dust. 2. Start the installation with a bootdisk.img diskette. 3. Enter "linux isa text expert reboot=bios" at the boot:-prompt. 4. Select be-latin1 as the keyboard layout. 5. Select only "text based internet" on the packages selection. Actual Results: The console keyboard layout is not be-latin1. Expected Results: Console keyboard layout be-latin1. Additional info: This problem did not occur with Red Hat 9; it was introduced with Fedora Core 1. Workaround: loadkeys /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/azerty/be-latin1.map.gz
A more complete workaround is manually putting the following line into the /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file. KEYTABLE=be-latin1
The installer doesn't always ask for the keyboard layout. That may be considered as another bug. For example, when I just hit the enter key at the boot:-prompt, so without entering "linux isa text expert reboot=bios", then the installer continues in text-modus, because my i586 is a bit old and weak for the graphical installer. It's OK to run in text-modus, but it's not OK that the installer doesn't ask for the keyboard layout. Anyhow, when the installer ask for the keyboard layout, then the answer should be used. That is the original bug of this bug report.
This should be better now