Syslinux - Feb 2009 - keytab-lilo included with SYSLINUX is not up to date

Hi,

I just noticed that the keytab-lilo utility included with SYSLINUX isn't 
up to date. It *is* a problem since the old version isn't compatible 
with current distributions like Debian ou Ubuntu (for example).

Two options are offered to those who would like to use keytab-lilo in 
order to generate a file compatible with the KBDMAP directive :

- use an up to date version of keytab-lilo (by downloading last version 
of LILO for example).

- patch keytab-lilo (see below).

You'll have to search for these three lines...
if (/^u_short\s+(\S+)_map\[\S+\]\s+=\s+{\s*$/) {
     die "active at beginning of map" if defined $current;
     $current = $pfx.":".$1;

... and replace them with these :
if (/^(static\s+)?u_short\s+(\S+)_map\[\S*\]\s+=\s+{\s*$/) {
     die "active at beginning of map" if defined $current;
     $current = $pfx.":".$2;


-- 
Regards,
Olivier Korn.

Olivier Korn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just noticed that the keytab-lilo utility included with SYSLINUX
isn't
> up to date. It *is* a problem since the old version isn't compatible 
> with current distributions like Debian ou Ubuntu (for example).
> 
> Two options are offered to those who would like to use keytab-lilo in 
> order to generate a file compatible with the KBDMAP directive :
> 
> - use an up to date version of keytab-lilo (by downloading last version 
> of LILO for example).
> 
> - patch keytab-lilo (see below).
> 
> You'll have to search for these three lines...
> if (/^u_short\s+(\S+)_map\[\S+\]\s+=\s+{\s*$/) {
>      die "active at beginning of map" if defined $current;
>      $current = $pfx.":".$1;
> 
> ... and replace them with these :
> if (/^(static\s+)?u_short\s+(\S+)_map\[\S*\]\s+=\s+{\s*$/) {
>      die "active at beginning of map" if defined $current;
>      $current = $pfx.":".$2;
> 
Thanks for the warning.  I have updated keytab-lilo in the git tree with
keytab-lilo.pl from LILO 22.8.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

Hi,

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Thanks for the warning.  I have updated keytab-lilo in the git tree with
> keytab-lilo.pl from LILO 22.8.
Thank you H. Peter. I just checked it and the new version doesn't work 
"out of the box". It says...
syntax error at keytab-lilo line 4, near "eval "
Execution of keytab-lilo aborted due to compilation errors.

Furthermore, after correcting lines 3 and 4 (which are responsible of 
the above error), keyboard maps can't be found (by loadkeys utility) 
because of an added bad extension (.map instead of .kmap).


Attached is a patch I wrote in order to make it fully work (apply it 
against the version of keytab-lilo which is now in the git tree).


I know you are not the author of this script, but I don't know how to 
contact the authors of LILO (their official website 
<http://lilo.go.dyndns.org/> is in 404 state).

-- 
Best regards,
Olivier Korn.
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