From 823a63dad4b029a343dac7262a8248c244661f83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bill Nottingham Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 03:13:12 +0000 Subject: document keytable stuff a little more --- sysconfig.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/sysconfig.txt b/sysconfig.txt index f2e6f670..101a6dfc 100644 --- a/sysconfig.txt +++ b/sysconfig.txt @@ -56,6 +56,15 @@ Files in /etc/sysconfig KEYTABLE= for example: KEYTABLE="/usr/lib/kbd/keytables/us.map" + + If you dump a keymap (using 'dumpkeys') to + /etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap + it will be loaded on bootup before filesystems are mounted/checked. + This could be useful if you need to emergency type the root password. + This has to be a dumped keymap, as opposed to copying the shipped + keymap files, as the shipped files include other maps from the + /usr/lib/kbd/keytables directory. + KEYBOARDTYPE=sun|pc on SPARC only, sun means a sun keyboard is attached on /dev/kbd, pc means a PS/2 keyboard is on ps/2 port. -- cgit v1.2.1