[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 545499] system-config-language does not fixup /boot/grub/grub.conf for dracut

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Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com> changed:

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                 CC|anaconda-maint-list at redhat. |hdegoede at redhat.com,
                   |com                         |lkundrak at v3.sk
          Component|anaconda                    |system-config-keyboard
         AssignedTo|anaconda-maint-list at redhat. |lkundrak at v3.sk
                   |com                         |
               Flag|needinfo?(fedora-bugzilla-o |
                   |din at the-morg.org)           |




--- Comment #2 from Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>  2009-12-09 04:22:25 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> system-config-language not come into picture while installation process, and
> s-c-l is not related anyway with grub.conf
> 

This bug is about how changing the language post install with
system-config-language, does not update grub.conf to reflect the new language.

Now that we are using dracut for the initrd, grub.conf contains something like:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.6-151.fc12.x86_64 ro root=LABEL=root
SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=ko rhgb quiet

(on one line)

dracut needs the SYSFONT, LANG and KEYTABLE information for things like showing
the correct translated messages while scanning storage, and more importantly
for proper unlocking of crypted disks.

mkinitrd use to hardcode the language inside the initrd, so after running
system-config-language, one needed to rerun mkinitrd to get this updated
propagated to the initrd.

dracut is more flexible wrt this. This does mean that system-config-language
will need to modify grub.conf when the system language is changed.

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