Is there a boot option for keyboard layout?

Question

I’ve used rescue CDs that allow the keyboard layout to be selected at boot time, by choosing from a menu or by adding kb=uk to the boot command line alongside noapic and the like.

Does Ubuntu support anything like this when booting from a live ISO, or is the keyboard layout only changeable after the system has finished booting?

Solution

I did not test this with a current 14.04 LiveCD but as an example for german layout i used this in the past:

keyboard-configuration/layout=de for the preseed file used by debian-installer

or simply

setkmap=de for the grub boot line.

Comments

[jarno]

It depends on how you prepared your bootable media. IIRC with raw ISO you can press some key and it lets you choose language and keyboard locale.