You only need to create configure script if you don't have a default 101 keys US keyboard layout. The /etc/sysconfig/keyboard file contains the information the loadkeys script needs to operate. This file contains the LAYOUT variable which tells loadkeys what keymap to load that corresponds with your keyboard. Create a new file /etc/sysconfig/keyboard by running the following: cat > /etc/sysconfig/keyboard << "EOF" # Begin /etc/sysconfig/keyboard LAYOUT=<path-to-keymap> # End /etc/sysconfig/keyboard EOF Replace <path-to-keymap> with the path to the keymap you have selected. For example, if you have chosen the US keymap, you would replace it with /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwerty/us.map.gz