Rationalizing X and console keymaps and configuration (was Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps)

[John Reiser]

On 01/03/2013 09:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>  if
> there's /etc/keyboard.conf specifying 'KEYBOARD=foo', [then] I should never
> have to pass 'KEYBOARD=foo' as a cmdline to make foo my keyboard layout
> in some case. As things stand I believe I do, for passphrase entry
> during dracut.

The dracut emergency shell can be activated before achieving visibility
of /etc/keyboard.conf from the intended root filesystem.  Thus a kernel
boot parameter "KEYBOARD=foo" might be "necessary" if the global default
(or in the value specified in the initramfs) is not appropriate.


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