Re: Some notes from recent 10.0_RC1 installs

John Klos <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:49:54 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.installation
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>> Definitively! This has also been reported for some macppc models.
>> We should have small fonts available, it probably is just a matter of adding
>> font options to the GENERIC kernel and testing.
>
> I guess that one of
>
> 	options FONT_GALLANT12x22
> 	options FONT_DROID_SANS_MONO12x22
> 	options FONT_DEJAVU_SANS_MONO12x22
>
> would make it work, but I have no easy way to test locally.

I'll test it tomorrow.

> Yes, but not trivial. We now supposedly have access to efi runtime 
> services on x86 which should allow us to configure "boot options" for 
> each device (that is where the menu gets the name from), but it 
> currently requires stuff from pkgsrc to do it manually, which also means 
> (as of now) there is no way to do it automatically in the installers.

Perhaps it'd be worth considering hard-coding it to, say, NetBSD, if 
otherwise customizing it is a big deal? Is that an option?

John