Re: Argh, hosed keymap
Ok, I managed to find a boot-cd that got me up enough to mount my rootfs
and do a little fixup. Ummmm, that was a YDL iso just cause the server I
found for it was faster than any of the half-dozen mirrors I tried to
download a woody iso from.
Thankfully the update process saved my old /etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz
file and restoring it fixed things nicely.
Now for the odd part:
A quick scan of both my old kmap and the updated one indicate that they
both are linux keycode maps (not ADB) and my kernel (homebuilt using
make-kpkg so the update didn't touch it) is compiled with
CONFIG_MAC_ADBKEYCODES turned off.
Why did this happen?
I'm guessing it's a result of me just pressing "YYYYYYYY..." to all the
config questions during the update. Perhaps I wound up installing a
dvorak kmap or something. I'm going to check /usr/share... to try and
match up the kmap that was installed and figure out what it is.
Thanks all,
-M
On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Chris Tillman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 12:15:09PM -0500, Mark S. Mathews wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I've got a 15-inch PB-G4 running deb unstable. I just ran an update a
> > little bit ago and now my keymap is totally screwed. I can't even log in.
> > Some of the chars I need for the password aren't represented at all.
> >
> > This system doesn't bring up any net interfaces because my config changes
> > to often (just always do it by hand). I've done a quick search but
> > haven't found any bootable ISOs yet that I might be able to use to boot
> > and fix my rootfs.
> >
>
> Calm, peace, ooohhhhhmmmmm.
>
> http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/keycodes
>
>
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