Why does the keyboard command in kickstart file not affect on the system with no keyboard?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Declared the keyboard command in kickstart file, but when it gets installed, if during the installation there is no usb keyboard connected, the machine gets installed with the variables KEYTABLE=us on the grub boot line.
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.el6.i686 ro ... KEYTABLE=us ...
  • Have check this issue installing the machine with the USB keyboard connected and it finishes ok: KEYTABLE=es
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.el6.i686 ro ... KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=es ...

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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