Bug#285778: Fwd: Re: [RC2 i386 floppy] Should handle the lack of translations on the floppies better

[Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>]

clone 285778 -1
reassign -1 main-menu
severity -1 important
retitle -1 [RC2 i386 floppy] kbd-chooser skipped completely
thanks

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 17:15, Frans Pop wrote:
> The only thing I noticed was that my keyboard went back to English
> (I'm not even sure whether I gad a German keyboard after selecting it -
>   perhaps I never typed a German keyboard specific key until I inserted
>   the CD.)

Hmmm. It looks like kbd-chooser is skipped completely during a floppy 
install when the cd-drivers floppy is used (for all languages).
This happens at normal priority and is even visible at medium priority.

At medium priority the menu before loading the cd-drivers floppy looks 
like this (the numbers show the sequence in which they are executed 
selecting all defaults):
  Choose language                      (1)
  Choose country or region             (2)
  Load drivers from a floppy           (3)
  Select a keyboard layout
  Detect network hardware
  ...

After loading the cd-drivers floppy, the menu looks like this:
  Choose language
  Choose country or region
  Detect and mount CD-ROM              (4)
  Load drivers from a floppy
  Select a keyboard layout
  Load installer components from CD    (5)
  Detect network hardware              (6)
...

As can be seen from the numbers, kbd-chooser is never run.

Also, why is "Detect and mount CD-ROM" inserted in the menu _before_ "Load 
drivers from a floppy"?

I'm not familiar enough with the way main-menu selects the next module to 
execute to debug this further.