setting font and keymap in single-user mode in 10.3

[Klaus Kaisersberger]

I have trouble getting font and keymap right for a German
iso keyboard (or anything else than standard-US) in single-user mode in 10.3
freshly installed from bootonly.iso:

 

I 'make kernel'ed an amd64-kernel with the following
settings (I even commented out kbdmux later on in the file):

--------------------

        ...

options        
SC_DISABLE_KDBKEY

options        
SC_DISABLE_REBOOT

options        
SC_DFLT_FONT

makeoptions    
SC_DFLT_FONT=iso15

options        
ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP

makeoptions    
ATKBD_DFLT_KEYMAP=german.iso.acc

        ...

--------------------

 

/etc/ttys looks like this:

--------------------

        ...

console none                            unknown off
insecure

#

ttyv0  
"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"        
xterm   on  insecure

# Virtual terminals

ttyv1  
"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"        
xterm   on  insecure

ttyv2  
"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"        
xterm   on  insecure

ttyv3  
"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"        
xterm   on  insecure

ttyv4  
"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"        
xterm   on  insecure

ttyv5  
"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"        
xterm   on  insecure

ttyv6  
"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"        
xterm   on  insecure

ttyv7  
"/usr/libexec/getty Pc"        
xterm   on  insecure

ttyv8  
"/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon" 
xterm   off insecure

        ...

--------------------

 

While this font (iso15) and keymap (german.iso.acc) work
as desired in virtual consoles, they do not in the single-user console, so that
umlauts yield \366 etc., just as if nothing had been set at all.

 

'kbdcontrol -l german.iso.acc' and 'vidcontrol -f iso15'
do not produce any errors, but also no noticeable effect in single-user. tty
returns /dev/console, as expected.

 

I am at a loss now, albeit I am quite sure, that I made
the same settings in 10.2, where it _did_ work. Obviously I made some error this time in 10.3, but I fail to pinpoint it.


 

If someone knows how to get german.iso.acc and iso15 to
actually work in single-user, most favorably by compiling it into the kernel,
it would really appreciate your suggestions.

 

----

Klaus