Bug#35649: SPARC boot lacking standard keyboard Support
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Argh, sorry about that HORRID formatting.. had to do raw telnet to get
the headers correct; I broke LILO on this machine again. :(
Anyways, quick clarification on this bux.
Basically, the SPARC boot-floppies do NOT have standard keyboard
support; only Sun keyboard. There is no generic 'QWERTY' mapping.
For those of you unfamiliar with SPARC hardware, there's two ugly
ducklings, the SPARCengine Ultra AX and Ultra AXi. Low-cost UltraSPARCs
for OEM integration. They have PS/2 ports. When ordered in bulk, they
don't come with a Sun keyboard. You have to provide your own.
Upon selecting ANY Sun keyboard, the PS/2 keyboard will no longer work,
making installation impossible. I was able to step through the
installation to make it work, but I had to select a keymap by hand after
rebooting. I used the i386/qwerty/us map, which seems to have worked.
The easy fix that i can see is simply to add the US QWERTY map in case
of lack of Sun keyboard. The bug is against the SPARC boot-floppies /
bootable CD version that's current as of 31/3/1999 in the slink tree,
BTW.
-prj
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