NAME

       keytab-lilo - compile keytables files for use with LILO

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/keytab-lilo [-p R old_code = new_code ] ...  [default_layout] kbd_layout

DESCRIPTION

       keytab-lilo  is  a  program which compiles keytable definitions (in the format specified in keytables(5))
       into a format which can be used by lilo(8) to set the keyboard type  when  booting  [using  the  keytable
       parameter in /etc/lilo.conf].

       kbd_layout should be the name of a map file which specifies the desired keyboard layout. This file may be
       a gzip(1) compressed map. If no file extension is given, .map.gz is assumed. If the full pathname is  not
       specified, /usr/share/keymaps/ is assumed.

       Since  lilo  essentially  needs to know the differences between the BIOS keyboard mapping and the one you
       require, the default_layout file should contain a keytables(5) file for the BIOS default mapping.  If  no
       default_layout file is specified, us.map.gz is used.

       keytab-lilo  writes  the  output  translation  table as a binary string to standard output, so you should
       redirect it to a suitable file.  lilo has no particular restrictions on the name of keyboard  translation
       files,  but  the  suggested  naming  convention  and location is /boot/mapping.ktl (where .ktl stands for
       "Keyboard Table for Lilo").

OPTIONS

       -p     R old_code = new_code
              Specifies corrections ("patches") to the mapping obtained from the translation table  files.  E.g.
              if  pressing  the  upper case "A" should yield an at sign, -p 65=64 would be used. The  -p  option
              can be repeated any number of times. The codes can also  be  given  as  hexadecimal  or  as  octal
              numbers if they are prefixed with 0x or 0, respectively.

EXAMPLES

       keytab-lilo dvorak >/boot/dvorak.ktl

              This  is  the  most common form of invocation; it simply compiles the given map file (in this case
              dvorak) and puts the result in /boot/dvorak.ktl.

AUTHOR

       Werner Almesberger (almesber@bernina.ethz.ch).
       Peter Maydell (pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk) wrote this manual page.

SEE ALSO

       lilo(8), keytables(5), gzip(1)

       lilo comes with extensive documentation which can be found in  /usr/share/doc/lilo-doc/  on  Debian-based
       systems.

                                                   April 1998                                  KEYTAB-LILO.PL(8)