Re: Some notes from recent 10.0_RC1 installs
John Klos <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:49:54 +0000 (UTC)
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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