Changeset 89d204ea for chapter07

Timestamp:

06/19/2004 08:11:58 PM (20 years ago)

Author:

Matthew Burgess <matthew@…>

Branches:

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Children:

0c012ac

Parents:

fe8b2f3

Message:

Improved wording of keymap related paragraphs (bug 741)

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3818 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter07/console.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter07/console.xml

@@ -92 +92 @@
 EOF</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>If you decided to
-compile your keymap directly into the kernel later on in <xref
-linkend="chapter-bootable"/> instead of setting it every time from the
-<command>console</command> bootscript, then you don't need to run the
-<command>loadkeys</command> program. Since the kernel will set up the keymap,
-you can omit the KEYMAP variable from the
-<filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename>
-configuration file. If you wish,
-you can still have it, this isn't going to hurt you. Keeping it could even
-be beneficial, in case you run a lot of different kernels and can't be sure
-that the keymap is compiled into every one of them.</para>
+<para>If you want to compile your keymap directly into the kernel instead of
+setting it every time from the <command>console</command> bootscript, then
+instructions are given in <xref linkend="ch-bootable-kernel"/>.  Doing this
+ensures that your keyboard will always work as expected, even when you boot into
+maintenance mode (by passing `init=/bin/sh' to the kernel), as in that
+situation, the <command>console</command> bootscript won't be run.</para>
+
+<para>Since the kernel will set up the keymap, you can omit the KEYMAP variable
+from the <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> configuration file. If you
+wish, you can still have it, this isn't going to hurt you. Keeping it could even
+be beneficial, in case you run a lot of different kernels and can't be sure that
+the keymap is compiled into every one of them.</para>
 
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