PE 2.0 UK keyboard

[podavies]

Hi,

Im going mad here when i ever i build PE Boot CD using the WAIK it allways uses the US the keyboard.

When i try and change the keyboard using wpeutil SetkeyboardLayout i get the error the "the command failed with status 0x80074005"

anyone ever come across this

Is there a way to set the keyboard when i create the disk,

Thanks

Paul

[Atheros]

have you tried the xml file approach? [unattend.xml] in the root of your pe2.0 image.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">

<settings pass="windowsPE">

<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">

<SetupUILanguage>

<UILanguage>EN-GB</UILanguage>

</SetupUILanguage>

</component>

</settings>

<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:d:/build-3.rm.01/x86/sources/install.wim#Windows Vista ULTIMATE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />

</unattend>

don't know if this will work or not. worth a go though right?

[Lasray]

Hi,

I was just browsing through the forum as a new member and think I can answer this (albeit a bit late)

Try adding 'wpeutil SetKeyboardLayout 0409:00000809' (without the quotes) as the first line of your startnet.cmd file

[advocas]

I was searching for a solution to add a UK keyboard to an offline image but this fix didn't work for me I then found a blog with the following info which works great, I thought I would post it here as it took many hours of searching before I found the answer.

intlcfg -InputLocale:en-GB -image:c:\winpe_x86\mount

or

intlcfg -InputLocale:0809:00000809 -image:c:\winpe_x86\mount

or

intlcfg -all:en-GB -image:c:\winpe_x86\mount

The -all only changed the inputlocale for me I think this was because I don'y have the en-GB language pack

You can check the settings using the following

intlcfg -report -image:c:\winpe_x86\mount

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722068.aspx for more details

Also if you are looking for language packs they are only available as part of Vista Ultimate or Enterprise

See http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/e...ab5ecc1033.mspx

********************Blog with original info look to the end ************************

WinPE 2.0 with localized keyboard layout

Sometimes things do not work out as they should (no, do not tell me that is always the case). Recently I tried to switch WinPE from Emglish to Swiss-French keyboard layout. For a customer not for me. I am not able to use rather Swiss nor Fench keyboards.

But neververtheless, this should be easy. There is a switch existing to do this during theWinPE session but although reporting success we did not get it working.

This may be my fault, but until someone shows me it is, I believe this is a bug. :-)

Nevertheless together with my customer we found a workaround.

It works like this:

Mount Your WinPE 2.0 boot.wim file to a folder (read/write)

Do an offline edit of the PE registry by loading the Default hive into the registry editor

Change the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Keyboard Layout\Preload\1 to e.g. 0000100c for Swiss -French

Unload the hive from the registry editor - This is important otherwise PE does not start, because the hive cannot be loaded. It still will be marked to be open by regedit.

Unmount the boot.wim file using the /commit command line option.

Then burn Your WinPE 2.0 image to a CD put it on a USB stick or on the hard disk

It should be no problem now, to work under Your keyboard layout.

//MOD EDIT

We don't use the US qwerty keyboard in Belgium.

First I changed the system32\STARTNET.CMD to include

2 extra lines :

wpeutil SetKeyboardLayout 0813:00000813

wpeutil SetUserLocale nl-BE

wpeinit

Unfortunately the keyboard was still Qwerty and not Belgian Azerty.

Then I found out I had to start a new command prompt from

the existing WINPE command window by executing the command :

start CMD.EXE

in this new Window the keyboard is now Belgian Azerty.

Of course I didn't like this workaround,

and then I found out there was another approach to make it

work natively in the first command window after WINPE has booted.

Proceed as follows :

While building WINPE,

and when the WINPE image is mounted, perform the following 3 commands to

change inputlocale, system locale and user locale.

Example for the "Belgian Dutch" azerty keyboard which is nl-be

and mounted directory C:\winpe_x86\mount :

intlcfg.exe -inputlocale:nl-be -image:c:\winpe_x86\mount

intlcfg.exe -syslocale:nl-be -image:c:\winpe_x86\mount

intlcfg.exe -userlocale:nl-be -image:c:\winpe_x86\mount

Edited March 8, 2009 by Tripredacus
added quote tag, clean extraneous info