error message:

 * Loading key mappings ...
 * /bin/loadkeys not found

[ !! ]
 * ERROR:  cannot start consolefont as keymaps could not start


it's very strange gentoo-ppc install kbd to /usr/bin/loadkeys instead
of /bin/loadkeys, which leads the above error.

localhost ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/powerpc/ppc32/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2,
glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r3-ibm ppc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r3-ibm ppc64 POWER4+ (gq)
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:45:02 +0000
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.61-r2
sys-devel/automake:  1.6.3, 1.10.1-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc"
CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=powerpc -mtune=powerpc -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe"
CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=powerpc -mtune=powerpc -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict
unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.lzu.edu.cn/gentoo
ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times
--compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180
--exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://202.201.0.141/gentoo-portage"
USE="acl berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv
ipv6 isdnlog midi mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl
ppc pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl sysfs tcpd unicode
xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="aoa aoa-fabric-layout aoa-onyx aoa-soundbus
aoa-soundbus-i2s aoa-tas aoa-toonie powermac usb-audio via82xx"
ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug
file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw
multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions
alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default
authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host
authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir
disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info
log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif
speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc"
INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad
cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text"
USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint mach64 mga nv r128 radeon savage
tdfx trident voodoo"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK,
LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS,
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

-- 
Wang, Baojun                                                Lanzhou University
Distributed & Embedded System Lab                      http://dslab.lzu.edu.cn
School of Information Science and Engeneering          wangbj@dslab.lzu.edu.cn
Tianshui South Road 222. Lanzhou 730000                             .P.R.China
Tel: +86-931-8912025                                      Fax: +86-931-8912022