On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Jon Peatfield wrote:

> I downloaded the 30rolling over the weekend and today tested a boot to
> the installer (booting using pxe in my case).
>
> The installer starts up fine but (in the first stage of the installer)
> it complains that it can't load the keymap file.  The example
> syslinux.cfg file has keymap=us so I added that but it gives the same
> error in any case.
>
>   "failed to read keymap information:
>    Success"
>
> It then asks me again once we are in the 2nd stage and is happy to
> take UK (or US) at this point.
>
> Looking at the initrd it seems that the etc/keymaps.gz file is far too
> small:
>
> ls -al /mnt/image/etc/key*
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           28 Sep  8 17:04 /mnt/image/etc/keymaps.gz

I will research this.  Thanks for reporting it.

>
> while the file in the initrd for the 3.0.2 release was:
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        13079 Jun 14 16:57 /mnt/image2/etc/keymaps.gz
>
> replacing the keymap.gz file with the one from the 302 seems to fix
> it.
>
> I'm currently testing an install on a test machine (pentium4) using
> the same (well almost) kickstart file I was using to test wbel-3.0
> (the cfg is based on a test setup for RH9 which is loosely based on
> what we use for our live systems).
>
> So far no errors from that, and it is now up and seems fine:
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux ltn.damtp.cam.ac.uk 2.4.21-20.EL #1 Thu Sep 2 17:04:22 CDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
> Scientific Linux SL Release 3.0.3 (SL)
>
> so it passes a trivial installation test.
>
> > Please send bug reports to the bug tracker that is at
> >
> >         http://www.scientificlinux.org
>
> I'd have reported the keymap issue on the web-tracker but I still get
> refused access to http://www.scientificlinux.org/
>
>

We have finally gotten this web area open.  Thanks for your patience.
Try it now.

-Connie Sieh