Hi, I want to change GRUB2's keyboard layout to the German qwertz layout.
This would be useful when editing boot parameters, entering the GRUB shell or typing supervisor names and passwords.
I experimented a bit but wasn't successful so far.
Could someone explain me how this works?
Do man localectl
You may need to revise localectl to permit the terminal keyboard layout to match your physical keyboard,
Thanks for your answer. But it seems the settings are already correct:
$ localectl status
System Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
VC Keymap: de-nodeadkeys
X11 Layout: de
X11 Variant: nodeadkeys
And according to the man page, localectl is only responsible for the keyboard layout when the system is already booted. This is not the case when I entered GRUB and want to get a GRUB shell or edit boot parameters.
You need to update your kernel boot command in grub by changing /etc/default/grub as follows:
To get a typical German keyboard layout you will have to modifiy/add to the line that starts with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= the following:
rd.vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rd.vconsole.keymap=de-latin1-nodeadkeys rd.locale.LANG=de_DE.UTF-8.
(It is very likely that vconsole.font is already defined.)
After that, you need to update your grub config by executing sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg.
(If you are running a parallel MS Win system in UEFI mode, the command should be sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg but I am not 100% sure about it!).
Then you will have use dracut that re-creates the initial ramdisk images.
Run sudo dracut -f /boot/initramfs-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r).
This might also help you.
Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately didn't work for me. Added rd.vconsole.keymap=de-latin1-nodeadkeys rd.locale.LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable (font was already present), executed grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and dracut --force but when I try to type my supervisor password in GRUB, it's still qwerty layout. Indeed, would have wondered me because the generated initial ramdisk isn't loaded at this time (when in GRUB w/o booting a specific entry).
Asked: 2015-03-27 08:12:25 -0600
Seen: 4,938 times
Last updated: Apr 05 '15
Ask Fedora is community maintained and Red Hat or Fedora Project is not responsible for content. Content on this site is licensed under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.
