04.02.2017 20:04, scootergrisen пишет: > I test out different Linux distributions and some distributions offer to > select language during boot and some does not. > > It helps when i can select language and keyboard layout etc. during boot > so i dont have to change the language etc. from inside GNOME or what ever. > > But does GRUB have anything to do about booting a system in a specific > language or does each distribution modify GRUB to be able to change > language. > > Some distributions seem to be able to change the language of the GRUB > boot menu and some does not. >
Internally GRUB supports l10n (reimplementation of gettext). Some distributions install language catalogs; how they select them is distribution-dependent. But grub-mkconfig and scripts that are shipped with GRUB itself do not make use of this and emit strings in fixed language, as set at the time grub-mkconfig runs so you cannot change menu language without regenerating it. That would be something to consider after 2.02 release. As for keyboard layout, unfortunately only at_keyboard supports run-time switch and it apparently has problems on real hardware. Default BIOS input driver has fixed layout. There was proposed patch to implement layouts on top of extended keyboard BIOS interface. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
