9.4. SuSE

In /etc/init.d/kbd, add this line in the very beginning of the file:

KBD_TTY="tty0 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7"

After modifications:

#! /bin/sh
# Copyright (c) 1995-2001 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany.
#
# Author:   Burchard Steinbild <bs@suse.de>
#           Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
#
# /etc/init.d/kbd
#
#   and symbolic its link
#
# /sbin/rckbd
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:       kbd
# Required-Start: $remote_fs
# Required-Stop:
# X-SuSE-Should-Start:  fbset serial
# X-SuSE-Should-Stop:
# Default-Start:  1 2 3 5 S
# Default-Stop:
# Description:    Keyboard settings (don't disable!)
### END INIT INFO

. /etc/rc.status
. /etc/sysconfig/console
. /etc/sysconfig/keyboard

MACHINE=`/bin/uname -m 2> /dev/null`
if [ "$MACHINE" = "sparc" -o "$MACHINE" = "sparc64" ]; then
   # Test if we have a serial console.
   (test -c /dev/tty1 && > /dev/tty1 ) > /dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0
fi

# The variable NON_SUSE_KERNEL determines whether we need to chvt
# to a console before some console settings apply.
# We have no magic to find out about this (at boot time), so we
# leave it to the user to read this comment and put NON_SUSE_KERNEL="yes"
# into /etc/sysconfig/console

KBDBASE="/usr/share/kbd"

KBD_TTY="tty0 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7"
KTABLE=${KEYTABLE%.map*}
KTABLE=${KTABLE##*/}
#
# first search the wanted keytable.
#
if [ $MACHINE = ppc -o $MACHINE = ppc64 ]; then
        test -f /proc/cpuinfo || mount -n -t proc proc /proc 2>/dev/null
        while read line; do
......
......

Hardware scans sometimes cause problems.
Recommended: disable. If you have to install new hardware and want to use this service, boot with standard kernel and start it manually.