On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:17:56PM +0100, Yann Dirson wrote: > Why do you need so ? If there *is* a general need for this, this > should be handled by kbd directly, but I (as kbd maintainer) need to > know exactly what you'd like to see. OK. Here is what I need. Usually I set LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, this means that all programs that are using appropriate functions, have their's output localized. For example, when I compile a kernel, it updates the version file (or something like that) that saying that it was compile at. This means that when I boot my computer (this is my home computer) it prints some pseudo-graphics characters that are supposed to be the date when the kernel was compiled. I'd like to see that in Russian, which is more meaningful.
My investigation shows that the only way to use appropriate font is to try to load it with boot loader. But, to my knowledge, the only loader that supports that is syslinux (I am not that sure, though). > PS: Please send such request as a bug-report against the relevant > package next time. Had I not been subscribed to this list, I would > never have read about it :( So I do not know what package I should file the bug-report against. There is no way to run any program before kernel is loaded, or init starts. So this should be a boot loader, but this seems to be a new feature rather than a bug. LILO (which I am using) does not seem to be developped actively... -- Mike
