Re: console font

Martin-Éric Racine <[email protected]> Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:05:28 +0300

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su 29.3.2026 klo 19.35 Samuel Thibault ([email protected]) kirjoitti:
>
> Martin-Éric Racine, le dim. 29 mars 2026 19:14:46 +0300, a ecrit:
> > However, I regularly stare at the console to check for problems during
> > bootop. The key problem is that when the font is loaded, the console
> > display is reset just as I'm trying to keep track of what init scripts
> > are printing.
>
> So the problem is actually not that the console loads a font, but that
> it does not keep the content of the screen (and preventing it from
> loading a font wouldn't change at all that issue).
>
> It could be made to do that.

Why wouldn't preventing it from changing the font help? It would.
Daemon startup messages would not be cleared half-way through booting
since we would be using the default BIOS fonts for everything.

Martin-Éric