Change keyboard layout in FOG Boot Menues

[Taspharel]

Hi.

Maybe this is a thing and I just havent found it yet:

Is there an easy way to change the keyboard layout of the FOG Bootmenues?

I can work around the US keyboard layout of course, but it would be a great convenience

[Tom Elliott]

You would have to build your own ipxe binaries unfortunately. Keymapping as done at compile time.

[george1421]

I did have instructions a while ago for recompiling the ipxe binaries for someone who wanted the FOG iPXE menu using the french keyboard.

@Taspharel what keyboard language do you require?

[x23piracy]

@george1421 @tom-elliott isn’t there a way to compile multi lingual and let the system detect what it is? Sorry for the naive question Or at least multi lingual and a switch in fog settings?

[Tom Elliott]

@x23piracy No. It would make the binaries very large. PXE has a standard the file sizes must remain at max.

[george1421]

@x23piracy This would be a slippery slope to go down. The keyboard settings need to be included when the iPXE binaries are compiled. Technically (not offering anything here) the developers could make a set of iPXE binaries available for download on the FOGProject web site for the 3 primary keyboard languages (english, european, cyrillic) but then what do you do if someone needs japanese or cn-taiwan? That is the slippery slope I talked about. Adding unique ipxe keyboards an easy task, but keeping up with the iPXE revisions is a bit more difficult.

[x23piracy]

ok understood, i really can stick with qwerty even when i am a german and we need qwertz My psws don’t use z, y, ß, ä, ö and or ü.

[Sebastian Roth]

@Tom-Elliott Probably another reason why we should build iPXE at install time instead of providing the binaries! Will look into this at some point…

Edit: Ok, just created a new topic on this and moved posts so we don’t take over this one. Follow this: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/10858/compile-ipxe-on-install

[Taspharel]

I would need the german keyboard layout for our setup.

But I get that its difficult within the current system, thanks for clearing that up

[x23piracy]

@taspharel it was good that you started that discussion and it sounds like that we maybe can expect that feature in the future. Thank you.