Comment # 11 on bug 1128853 from Frederic Crozat

(In reply to Thorsten Kukuk from comment #8)
> (In reply to Ancor Gonzalez Sosa from comment #7)
> > Who said YaST wants to re-write grub.cfg? The problematic /boot operation
> > here has nothing to do with Grub. The problem is that YaST is trying to
> > regenerate initrd... as we (the YaST Team) were told to do in the
> > bug#888804, titled "keyboard changes requires initrd regeneration". A bug
> > that was reported by [drum roll...] Thorsten Kukuk. ;-)
> 
> But the regeneration of initrd did come from Frederic ;)
> And I still don't understand that. Changing the keyboard layout should not
> require a rebuild of the initrd. Hm, maybe to unlock a full disk
> encryption...

This is needed when typing passphrase at initrd level.

And also, potentially, if you need to drop in dracut shell (if you configure a
keyboard layout, it should apply from bootloader level to the system running.
At not point during the boot should the keyboard mapping be "reverted" (or not
configured) to US).