KEYTAB-LILO.PL

KEYTAB-LILO.PL

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS EXAMPLES AUTHOR SEE ALSO

NAME

keytab-lilo - compile keytables files for use with LILO

SYNOPSIS

/usr/sbin/keytab-lilo [unrenderable node] ... [''default_layout'' kbd_layout

DESCRIPTION

keytab-lilo is a program which compiles keytable definitions (in the format specified in __keytables(5)) into a format which can be used by lilo(8)__ to set the keyboard type when booting [unrenderable node].

kbd_layout should be the name of a map file which specifies the desired keyboard layout. This file may be a __gzip(1) compressed map. If no file extension is given, .map.gz is assumed. If the full pathname is not specified, /usr/share/keymaps/__ is assumed.

Since lilo essentially needs to know the differences between the BIOS keyboard mapping and the one you require, the default_layout file should contain a __keytables(5) file for the BIOS default mapping. If no default_layout file is specified, us.map.gz__ is used.

keytab-lilo writes the output translation table as a binary string to standard output, so you should redirect it to a suitable file. lilo has no particular restrictions on the name of keyboard translation files, but the suggested naming convention and location is /boot/mapping.ktl (where .ktl stands for __

OPTIONS

-p

old_code=new_code Specifies corrections (

EXAMPLES

keytab-lilo dvorak

This is the most common form of invocation; it simply compiles the given map file (in this case dvorak) and puts the result in /boot/dvorak.ktl.

AUTHOR

Werner Almesberger (almesber@bernina.ethz.ch). Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote this manual page.

SEE ALSO

lilo(8), keytables(5), gzip(1)

lilo comes with extensive documentation; this can be found in /usr/share/doc/lilo/ on Debian systems.