Messages in this thread | | | From | (Jon Tombs) | Subject | Re: default keymaping and fsck-recovery | Date | Sat, 9 Mar 1996 20:04:39 +0100 (MET) |
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Winfried Truemper said: > > > When fsck throws you in some sort of single-user mode, no keymap is > loaded. > So if you're running with a non-us keyboard, you're in a nasty situation > where you must recover with guessing the keystrokes (ok, I know them > but a new user may fail). > [Think of /usr not being available, so you can't simply use "loadkeys"].
Why, just because slackware leaves things in /usr doesn't mean they should be. I copy the default keymap to /etc/keymap and have /sbin/loadkeys /etc/keymap before fsck. If /etc/ and /sbin/ are not mounted then no kernel changes will save you.
-- Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>
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