Re: On the road to the next release: testing the installer

[Josselin Poiret]

Hi Romain,

Romain <romain@rgarbage.fr> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On February 10, 2024 11:35:56 AM GMT+01:00, Josselin Poiret <dev@jpoiret.xyz> 
> wrote:
>>We don't try to embed the required keymap in the GRUB image and load it
>>early on.  It shouldn't be too hard, but would require a bit of
>>refactoring.
>>
>
> I started looking at this issue as I am also using full encryption with Guix 
> system.
> If someone familiar with the grub-bootloader module would give me a few 
> pointers, I'd be happy to work on fixing it. AFAIR, I couldn't figure out how 
> to access to the grub configuration in the code installing the grub image on 
> disk.

The grub configuration is generated by make-grub-configuration in
gnu/bootloader/grub.scm.  The idea would be to add the generated
keyboard layout to the initial grub image, and make sure that
keyboard-layout-config appears first in the generated config.

Best,
-- 
Josselin Poiret

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