diff --git a/0001-units-disable-start-rate-limit-for-systemd-vconsole-.patch b/0001-units-disable-start-rate-limit-for-systemd-vconsole-.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c8d79a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-units-disable-start-rate-limit-for-systemd-vconsole-.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+From 4704176795c167d49f87dfea79193913e6c6d939 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: =?UTF-8?q?Zbigniew=20J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
+Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 13:27:17 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] units: disable start rate limit for
+ systemd-vconsole-setup.service
+
+The unit will be started or restarted a few times during boot, but but it has
+StartLimitBurst = DefaultStartLimitBurst = 5, which means that the fifth
+restart will already fail. On my laptop, I have exactly 4 restarts, so I don't
+hit the limit, but on a slightly different system we will easily hit the limit.
+In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251394, there are five reloads
+and we hit the limit.
+
+Since 6ef512c0bb7aeb2000588d7d05e23b4681da8657 we propagate the start counter
+over switch-root and daemon reloads, so it's easier to hit the limit during
+boot.
+
+In principle there might be systems with lots of vtcon devices, so let's just
+allow the unit to be restarted without a limit.
+
+Fixes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251394.
+---
+ units/systemd-vconsole-setup.service.in | 6 ++++++
+ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/units/systemd-vconsole-setup.service.in b/units/systemd-vconsole-setup.service.in
+index 3475d456bc..c6c5bc9130 100644
+--- a/units/systemd-vconsole-setup.service.in
++++ b/units/systemd-vconsole-setup.service.in
+@@ -17,6 +17,12 @@ DefaultDependencies=no
+ Before=sysinit.target
+ Before=initrd-switch-root.target shutdown.target
+ 
++# This unit will be restarted by udev whenever a new vtcon device appears or is
++# triggered. Usually that happens just a handful of times during boot, but some
++# systems may have hundreds or thousands of serial consoles connected, so let's
++# just disable the limit altogether.
++StartLimitIntervalSec=0
++
+ [Service]
+ Type=oneshot
+ # This service will be restarted by udev whenever a new vtcon device appears.
+-- 
+2.43.0
+
diff --git a/systemd.spec b/systemd.spec
index 607e0ea..34e2bfe 100644
--- a/systemd.spec
+++ b/systemd.spec
@@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ Patch0001:      https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/26494.patch
 
 Patch0002:      0001-meson-always-install-network-example-files.patch
 
+# https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/30197
+# https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251394
+# Drop vconsole restart limit to prevent it sometimes failing on boot
+Patch0003:      0001-units-disable-start-rate-limit-for-systemd-vconsole-.patch
+
 
 # Those are downstream-only patches, but we don't want them in packit builds:
 # https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1738828