On Wednesday 18 January 2006 17:25, Sturtz, Marcel wrote:
> When booting up, I can use my PS/2 keyboard without problems.
No problems booting up with what? Not linux probably...
Or do you mean there are no problems at the OpenFirmware prompt?
> When
> booting *any* linux install CD, it seems like my keyboard isn't
> properly installed. My NumLock key acts like the Enter key for
> instance. It looks like linux expects the sun keyboard to be used.
>
> Are there any parameters I can use before booting?
It sounds to me like a kernel problem where, even though a PS/2 port is
used, the kernel keymap is set to a Sun Type keymap.
I would guess that these problems may not exist any more if a 2.6 kernel
is used, but I may be wrong. Were you booting with a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel?
Some questions.
- Do you have a keyboard connected to both ports or just the PS/2 port?
- If you have both connected, do both produce input or is one dead after
the boot?
Debian Installer has support for both PS/2 (PC) and Sun keymaps, but the
selection for these only happens _after_ the language/country questions
are asked.
A possible way to work around this is to preseed the answers for the first
few questions on the bootprompt. This is only really possible using the
current daily images [1] which install Etch.
Try booting with:
linux debian-installer/locale=nl_NL console-tools/archs=at
or
linux debian-installer/locale=en_US console-tools/archs=at
(this should work with a 2.4 kernel too)
More information on preseeding can be found at [2].
Cheers,
FJP
[1] http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
[2] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apb.html
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