"In d-i, kbd-chooser's prebaseconfig chroots to /target and runs install-keymap with the user's selected keymap. On 2.4, this works and we get a etc/console/boottime.kmap.gz in target. On 2.6, this has recently stopped working, and we get many repeats of this to stderr (caught into the d-i log):
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console Failed to preserve keymap!" I highly suspect that this bug is away for a long time now. Shouldn't we close it ? --