Re: Keyboards

[Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 04.02.2009, 16:17 -0500 schrieb BandiPat:

> 1. Is it possible to set the keyboard layout for grub? It's always hard 
> to find the right characters at lilo prompt.

No.

> 2. The only real advantage is, that I don't have to run lilo after 
> kernel updates? I still have to edit the config file for my self 
> compiled kernel updates? 

Yes or rerun grub-mkconfig.
On Debian/Ubuntu there is /etc/kernel-img.conf where you can specifiy a
postinst_hook which calls update-grub (which is just a stub for
grub-mkconfig)

> set root=(hd0,2)
>          linux   (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.*.* root=/dev/sda2 ro 
> splash=silent vga=794
> }
> Which would list all vmlinuz-2.6.*.* kernels as menuentry and 
> automatically set the highest version number as default. This would be 
> cool :-D

Good idea but that isn't currently possible I think.

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Felix Zielcke