keyboard automatic detection fails

# Keyboard and Hardware / Locale setup
d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
d-i console-setup/layoutcode string us
#d-i console-setup/variant select United Kingdom
#d-i console-setup/charmap select UTF-8

d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i time/zone string Europe/London
#d-i console-tools/archs select uk
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_GB

# Ubuntu archive mirror hostname:
d-i mirror/country string GB
d-i mirror/http/countries select GB
d-i mirror/protocol select http
d-i mirror/http/hostname string gb.archive.ubuntu.com
d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu/
d-i mirror/suite select gutsy
d-i mirror/codename string gutsy
# Ubuntu archive mirror:
d-i mirror/http/mirror select gb.archive.ubuntu.com
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/non-free boolean false
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/use_mirror boolean true
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/restricted boolean true
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/universe boolean true
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/multiverse boolean true
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/contrib boolean false
apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/backports boolean true

# Disk Setup
d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
partman-auto partman-auto/init_automatically_partition select Guided - use entire disk
partman-auto partman-auto/automatically_partition select
d-i partman-auto/purge_lvm_from_device boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i partman/choose_partition select Finish partitioning and write changes to disk
d-i partman/confirm boolean true

# Network Configuraiton
d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname
d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain
# Disable that annoying WEP key dialog.
d-i netcfg/wireless_wep string

#d-i console-setup/variant select United Kingdom
#d-i console-setup/charmap select UTF-8

d-i console-setup/layout select U.S. English
console-setup console-setup/detect detect-keyboard us
console-setup console-setup/ask_detect boolean false

d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i time/zone string Europe/London
d-i console-tools/archs select uk
d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US

d-i passwd/root-login boolean true
d-i passwd/root-password-crypted password $1$4m77pKlp$mdIWPzW6swZWACW8Pw9Ty/
d-i passwd/make-user boolean false

popularity-contest popularity-contest/participate boolean false

tasksel tasksel/first multiselect lamp-server
d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server ntp-server ntpdate dmsetup screen multipath-tools multipath-tools-initramfs lvm2 snmpd scsiadd

d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note

I have tried several different recommendations based on other peoples sample preseed configuration files in each case it always prompts me for the keyboard detection stuff.

Regards,

James

Hello,

This problem also occurs on the i386 version of Gutsy.

You cannot use preseed *file* to change keyboard layout since these questions appear *before* CDROM even accessed.
You can use kernel parameters tought. Try:

append console-setup/ask_detect=false console-setup/layoutcode=us ......

in isolinux/isolinux.cfg file.

cheers,
Gergely

Gergely is correct. You must place such preseeded values in the initrd. See section B.4.1 of the installation-guide.

Marking as invalid as this is not a bug.

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your response. I confirm that has resolved the issue.

Regards,

James