Bug#559878: debian-installer: keyboard e grub problems

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:43:11PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
>
> First problem is that (AFAIK) console-setup does not have an option to keep 
> the kernel keymap.

The following setting in /etc/default/keyboard has the same result:

KMAP=/etc/console-setup/defkeymap.kmap.gz

provided that defkeymap.kmap.gz is copied from /usr/share/keymaps/... to 
/etc/console-setup.  But there is no debconf-question to support this 
setting and I don't think there will be one.

> One solution could be to set the keymap to "us" for console-setup if 
> "do not configure keyboard" was selected. This is not a very nice 
> solution as it means doing something other than the user selected.
>
> Another option could be to not install console-setup at all, but that also 
> seems like the wrong solution as it means you also don't get console fonts 
> etc.

My preferred solution is to remove the "leave kernel keymap" option.

> BTW, are you really sure that you *have* to choose "do not configure 
> keyboard"?

I can't think of a situation when loading defkeymap.kmap.gz is different 
to leaving the kernel keymap.

Anton Zinoviev