That resolved my issue. Thank you very much. Regards Björn On Fri, 2023-01-06 at 10:52 +0100, Uwe Sauter wrote: > Did you recreate the initrd? > > mkinitcpio -p linux > > Am 06.01.23 um 10:18 schrieb Björn Försterling: > > Hello, > > > > After finishing the Arch Linux installation (without desktop environment or > > X11) > > I can't make the keyboard layout persistent. > > (I am using the 01/2023 ISO as installation medium) > > I have set the keyboard layout to de-latin1 in /etc/vconsole.conf. > > This is the content of /etc/vconsole.conf: > > KEYMAP=de-latin1 > > > > Usually this works and the keyboard layout is permanent. > > > > But somehow systemd does not read it and after every reboot I am back to US > > layout. > > I tried to set the keyboard layout through a kernel parameter like this: > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet vconsole.keymap=de-latin1" > > But it did not solve the issue. > > > > According to pstree systemd should be the init system. > > > > Does someone have an idea what could've gone wrong in the installation > > process? > > > > Regards > > Björn