How to Boot with a Different Keyboard
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When booting from CD, the default keyboard and locale is for US English.
There is limited support for specifying a different keyboard and locale at boot by providing a two character code, which is usually, but not always, a country code.
For example the command for a default boot with French keyboard is:
linux fr
The following keyboard codes are explicitly supported.
| country-language | code | keyboard | locale |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium |
be |
be-latin1 | default |
| Finland-Finnish |
fi |
fi-latin1 | fi_FI@euro |
| France-French |
fr |
fr | fr_FR@euro |
| Germany-German |
de |
de | de_DE@euro |
| Hungary-Hungarian |
hu |
hu | hu_HU |
| Italy-Italian |
it |
it | it_IT@euro |
| Netherlands-Dutch |
nl |
nl | nl_NL@euro |
| Norway-Norwegian |
no |
no | no_NO |
| Spain-Spanish |
es |
es | es_ES@euro |
| Turkey-Turkish |
tr |
trf | tr_TR |
| United Kingdom-English |
uk |
uk | en_GB |
| United States-English |
us |
us | en_US |