Julipan
30th December 2008, 03:14 PM
Hi all,
I've just installed Fedora 10 on a Mac G4 and though the installation went very smooth I'm left with one major problem.
On every boot, the first thing that happens is that I get a message saying:
Loadng /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/no.map
which remains the only thing on the screen for several minutes until the booting finally proceeds. Furthermore, the console text I see when shutting down the computer is mostly garbled.
As I don't really need the console to use any particular keymap, I have tried changing it to both Swedish, UK and US keymaps without any difference. I have tried editing /etc/sysconfig/keyboard as well as adding lang=en to the boot parameters in yaboot.conf. Since none of these seem to make any difference (the machine still tries to load the same Norwegian keymap no matter what I supply in the aforementioned files), I would greatly appreciate any help in solving my problem.
all the best,
/Stian
UPDATE:
I've done some more trying and testing and discovered that it does not hang every time. In the course of about 50 reboots it booted properly two times. Incidentally, both of these times were after I had done a change that I thought might help. The first of these was to run "loadkeys [path to another keymap]" and the second was to add "setkmap=us" to the boot parameter in yaboot.conf. Naturally, I was thrilled that these seemed to fix the problem, but upon the next reboot it was back to the old "Loading" message.
I also tried overwriting "no.map" and "no.map.gz" with other keymap files, and since it didn't change a thing I'm fairly sure there's nothing wrong with the keymap file itself, but rather with loading any keymap at this point. I've fiddled around with different configuration files in /etc, like rc.sysinit, but couldn't find any reference to the keymap loading.
I've just installed Fedora 10 on a Mac G4 and though the installation went very smooth I'm left with one major problem.
On every boot, the first thing that happens is that I get a message saying:
Loadng /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/no.map
which remains the only thing on the screen for several minutes until the booting finally proceeds. Furthermore, the console text I see when shutting down the computer is mostly garbled.
As I don't really need the console to use any particular keymap, I have tried changing it to both Swedish, UK and US keymaps without any difference. I have tried editing /etc/sysconfig/keyboard as well as adding lang=en to the boot parameters in yaboot.conf. Since none of these seem to make any difference (the machine still tries to load the same Norwegian keymap no matter what I supply in the aforementioned files), I would greatly appreciate any help in solving my problem.
all the best,
/Stian
UPDATE:
I've done some more trying and testing and discovered that it does not hang every time. In the course of about 50 reboots it booted properly two times. Incidentally, both of these times were after I had done a change that I thought might help. The first of these was to run "loadkeys [path to another keymap]" and the second was to add "setkmap=us" to the boot parameter in yaboot.conf. Naturally, I was thrilled that these seemed to fix the problem, but upon the next reboot it was back to the old "Loading" message.
I also tried overwriting "no.map" and "no.map.gz" with other keymap files, and since it didn't change a thing I'm fairly sure there's nothing wrong with the keymap file itself, but rather with loading any keymap at this point. I've fiddled around with different configuration files in /etc, like rc.sysinit, but couldn't find any reference to the keymap loading.
