Spanish Keyboard Layout

When i received my iMac mini, i configured the keyboard layout to english in the first-turned-on setup. Later then i changed my keyboard for one with spanish layout, i changed my layout in the setting to use that layout, but avery time i turn it on, in the login screen the mac is still using the english layout, the question is, how can i change that? how can i configure the keyboard layout to use the spanish one at at the boot time?
Thx.

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