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How keymapping is done when the system is booted and how to change it.
The file "/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit" contains the following line:
loadkeys $KEYMAP > /dev/tty0 < /dev/tty0 2</dev/null && success "Loading default keymap" || failure "loading default keymap"
$KEYMAP is previously defined as "/etc/sysconfig/console/default.kmap" if it exists, but normally it is defined as the value set in the file "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard" (which is normally "us" in the United Stated) if the directory "/usr/lib/kbd/keymaps" exists. Therefore the easy way to modify the key settings for the system is to modify the file /etc/sysconfig/keyboard to a new default value such as KEYTABLE="/etc/sysconfig/console/mykeymap". An example keymap file is shown in the section "Example Keymap File".