Bug#241231: DECstation 5000/133 (mipsel) install with some problems
>On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:21:49PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
>
>> Package: installation-reports
>
>> Debian-installer-version: daily r3k-kn02/boot.img snapshot, 200
>> "Select a keyboard layout": doesn't do anything (I didn't have a
>> keyboard conncted, but anyway).
>
>This is the major problem we have on mipsel currently. The LK201
>keymaps have been splitted out into a seperate udeb and kbd-chooser
>needs to handle this correctly. I had preliminary code for this but
>due to several issues it does not work properly. Another thing in
>kbd-chooser is that for some reason the keyboard-handling routines
>seem to be passed a subarch name (as in -r4k-kn04) instead of the
>keymap name on mipsel. This needs further inspection.
>
Actually this is right in this case, Karsten.
The new serial-detection code is detecting a serial console install, and since
DEBCONF_PRIORITY is higher than "low",
kbd-chooser is setting serial-console=true and quitting without
setting the keyboard.
Whats confusing is that this option is appearing on main-menu,
but apparently 'does nothing'. Martin is only seeing
this because country-chooser has for some reason failed, and
he sees main-menu. In the normal DEBCONF_PRIORITY=high flow,
you would see the language-chooser question, country-chooser
and then disk-partitioning; the kbd-chooser question would
not appear.
Can I be of any assistance in the kbd-chooser problem?
Is the code available somewhere? I had some console-keymaps-dec
code but have not commited, as you said you had some, and
I don't have access to a mips/el box currently, so
yours should be better :-)
Regards
Alastair
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