Description of problem: rescue image (boot from PXE) doesn't ask for language or keyboard Extract from pxe config : label rescue menu indent count 5 menu label ^Rescue a Fedora system. text help If the system will not boot, this lets you access files and edit config files to try to get it booting again. endtext kernel fedora-17_64/vmlinuz append initrd=fedora-17_64/initrd.img repo=nfs:xxxx:/vol/ren1b_soft_unix/linux/distribution/fedora-17_64/x86_64/os/ rescue Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: rescue uses us keyboard Expected results: rescue ask for keyboard type Additional info:
This is certainly the case, I can duplicate it here. There just aren't any steps in the rescue path that would prompt for keyboard/language. You can supply them at the boot prompt via keymap= and lang= options. With the newui redesign we'll have to decide if we want to prompt for rescue and how that fits into the new UI. Leaving this open for now.
Thanks. But http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/sn-mode-rescue.html needs some cleaning...
Yes, please file a bug with the docs team about that.
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With F19, keyboard and language menus are still not displayed in rescue mode. Could someone please bump the version to 19? Martin: What is the plan here? See also: Bug 983872 - one keyboard in rescue mode 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
F16 appears to be the last release that provided keyboard and language menus in rescue mode. Tested with: $ qemu-kvm -m 4096 -hda f19-test-1.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F16/Fedora-16-x86_64-DVD.iso -vga std -boot menu=on
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