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    SubjectRe: default keymaping and fsck-recovery
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    Winfried Truemper said:
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    >
    > 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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