Re: [Bug-grub] Re: Some GRUB issues (0.5.96.1)

[Jason Thomas]

can the menu.lst file include another file, that way the keymappings
could be in a seperate file and include.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:11:36PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 09:16:57PM +0200, Mario Klebsch wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, 12. June 2001 08:23, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > > 2. The keyboard attached to my PC is a german keyboard. Therefore,
> > > during booting with GRUB, a lot of keys have another meaning than on
> > > US keyboards. The "setkey" command can be helpful, but it would be
> > > better if a command like "setkeytable" would be available, for
> > > example:
> > >
> > >         setkeytable de-latin1              or
> > >         setkeytable de-latin1-nodeadkeys,
> > >
> > >     which could be in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst, so that the
> > >     keymap is already correct if stage2 is loaded.
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, this on is top on my personal wish-list, too. I tried to read raw
> > keyboard events instead of ASCII-Characters. 
> 
> You can always put on top of the menu.lst the "mapping" of ASCII
> characters for you keyboard.
> 
> That's what I propose for french users :
> 
> 
> # Keymapping for an azerty french keyboard
> setkey less backquote
> setkey greater tilde
> setkey ampersand 1
> setkey 1 exclam
> setkey tilde 2
> setkey 2 at
> setkey doublequote 3
> setkey 3 numbersign
> setkey quote 4
> setkey 4 dollar
> setkey parenleft 5
> setkey 5 percent
> setkey minus 6
> setkey 6 caret
> setkey backquote 7
> setkey 7 ampersand
> setkey underscore 8
> setkey 8 asterisk
> setkey backslash 9
> setkey 9 parenleft
> setkey at 0
> setkey 0 parenright
> setkey parenright minus
> setkey numbersign underscore
> # no change for equal
> # no change for plus
> setkey a q
> setkey A Q
> setkey z w
> setkey Z W
> setkey caret bracketleft
> # no equivalent for diaresis => we keep the US braceleft
> setkey dollar bracketright
> # no equivalent for pound => we keep the US braceright
> setkey q a
> setkey Q A
> setkey m semicolon
> setkey M colon
> setkey bracketleft quote 
> setkey percent doublequote
> setkey asterisk backslash
> setkey bracketright bar
> setkey w z
> setkey W Z
> setkey comma m
> setkey question M
> setkey semicolon comma
> setkey period less
> setkey colon period
> setkey slash greater
> setkey exclam slash
> setkey bar question
> 
> #Entries begin after
> 
> Cheers,
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> Thierry Laronde <address@hidden>
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