The loading of keyboard mapping and console font is done in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, _before_ partitions other than / are mounted. As my /usr resides on a different partition, fonts and mappings cannot be found this early. I moved both tasks downward in the script, just after mount -a. This did the job.
it will get loaded by the keytable init script when it is run as well, which is after the root partition is mounted. It's at the beginning also for those who a) have no separate /usr b) have put their keymaps & font data in /etc/sysconfig/console...
Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/openshift/origin https://github.com/openshift/origin/commit/e04f8d1f276a9e017c5eb2235256dc3f5ea2cfb3 Merge pull request #3242 from sdodson/issue3236 Merged by openshift-bot