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A quote from the Slackware README_CTYPT.txt "NOTE: if you use a non-US keyboard and need to enter a passphrase during boot, this may be problematic if the keyb
by keithpeter 11y ago
A quote from the Slackware README_CTYPT.txt
"NOTE: if you use a non-US keyboard and need to enter a passphrase during boot, this may be problematic if the keyboard mapping is US while Slackware runs from the initrd filesystem. In this case, add support for your keyboard to the initrd image using this additional parameter to the 'mkinitrd' command above: "-l <language>". The string <language> is the same as the one you select in the installer when your keyboard is non-US. Example for a dutch keyboard: "-l nl"."
Now I'm warned that other systems that use automated kernel updates may clobber the keyboard choice for the initrd.
- Johnny_Brahms 11y ago"May" as in "most certainly did", at least when you are lazy like me and use a GUI-centered distro. I ended up plugging the harddrive into another computer and fixing it from there. I never got that shit from slackware...
- notalaser 11y agoSlackware don't do shit. In fact, Slackware don't do anything unless it's told, which is not as bad a thing as it may seem.
- keithpeter 11y agoTook me some years to work it out but I have begun to appreciate Slackware since installing 14.1 summer before last.
- kuschku 11y agoI have to input a different keyboard when logging in through sddm vs. when using sudo, due to sddm refusing to accept non-US locales.
- keithpeter 11y agoI have that one when running init 4 but the encryption pass phrase is before that stage of the boot up the way my laptop is set up. I'll remember that though...
- aaronem 11y agoSo I looked up SDDM, because I'd never heard of it, and when I found it what it was (and saw its bug list) I laughed and laughed. https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html Nothing changes.