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Comment by keithpeter

10 years 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.

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Johnny_Brahms  10 years 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  10 years ago

    Slackware 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  10 years ago

      Took me some years to work it out but I have begun to appreciate Slackware since installing 14.1 summer before last.

kuschku  10 years ago

I have to input a different keyboard when logging in through sddm vs. when using sudo, due to sddm refusing to accept non-US locales.