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<font face="monospace">In principle, GRUB2 allows you to change the
keyboard layout through its 'at_keyboard' input terminal.<br>
You can use the 'grub-mklayout' utility to create a GRUB keyboard
layout, e.g., for dvorak:<br>
<br>
ckbcomp dvorak | grub-mklayout -o dvorak.gkb<br>
<br>
Create a 'layouts' subdirectory under your 'grub' directory, and
copy the GRUB keyboard layout to it, e.g.:<br>
<br>
mkdir /boot/grub/layouts<br>
cp dvorak.gkb /boot/grub/layouts<br>
<br>
The 'keymap' command under GRUB (e.g., in your 'grub.cfg') will
then load the keymap:<br>
<br>
keymap dvorak<br>
<br>
To actually use the keymap, you will have to switch the the
'at_keyboard' input terminal:<br>
<br>
terminal_input at_keyboard<br>
<br>
Trouble is, under a PC BIOS system, the 'at_keyboard' input
terminal is broken.<br>
It is unclear to me how (or even, whether) it can be fixed.<br>
<br>
Since I, too, got frustrated that I couldn't change the keyboard
layout, I decided to try and create my own 'ext_kbd' input
terminal, for personal use.<br>
The 'ext_kbd' input terminal implements something akin to the
'setkey' command that was available under what is now known as
GRUB Legacy.<br>
It won't go into upstream, since it deviates from the
infrastructure that GRUB already provides for changing the
keyboard layout.<br>
<br>
In any case, I'll attach a patch that will add support for my
'ext_kbd' module to GRUB, in case anyone is interested enough to
try it.<br>
If you decide to apply the patch, then you will subsequently have
to run './autogen.sh' before you run './configure'. Otherwise, the
build process will not pick up the definition of the 'ext_kbd'
module that the patch adds to the 'grub-core/Makefile.core.def'
file.<br>
<br>
I'm afraid that this is the best that I can do for now.<br>
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-- Luc.<br>
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