On 11/24/2010 11:57 PM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:

Hello

What do you think about this? Is not perfect, but at least can make more people happy.

• A simple demo script that can be added to syslinux-iso profile.
• Needs lilo (for keytab-lilo perl script) and kdb (for keymaps)
• Some keymaps require unicode support, otherwise will fail. So maybe

(if this is implemented) lilo can als provide a keymap-lilo-unicode (below is how this can be generated)

• Each keymap file takes only 256 bytes.
• The script is here: https://gist.github.com/714822

A much better keymap support is using gfxboot.c32, but this is another history ;)

I motivated by this feature request: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21725

To make this work done I need to split syslinux.cfg in some parts, any issues?

mkarchiso will parse all to find/replace "%XYZ%" like archiso2dual is doing in my install_dir branch.

My idea (any sugestions are very welcomed)

<common> ------------------------- <main> <Arch Linux> <chainloader> <reboot> <poweroff>

<tools> <hdt> <memtest> <memtest w/memdisk>(*) <maybe some syslinux toy...>

<keymap> <the> <list> <of> <all> <keymaps> ---------------------------

(*) some machines need this when BIOS puts more stuff than normal below 640K.