booting in blue

[griffin8j at gmail.com]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Luca Ferrari wrote:

> Hi all,
> I just installed  a fresh 10.1-release and noted that the "Booting..."
> message is now on a blue background. Apparently this has been reported
> as a bug: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=182145
> I was instead wondering if FreeBSD has applied the same schema used by
> OpenBSD: the kernel messages have a different background. This helps a
> lot understanding what is going on in the console, and is in my
> opinion, a better way than using a bold white for the kernel messages.
> Now the question is: is there a configuration tunable for turning on
> blue all the kernel messages as the initial booting message?
> I mean something simpler than having to tune options and recompile the
> kernel (https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/boot-and-kernel-message-background-and-color.33196/).
>
> Thanks,
> Luca


Yes you can keep these settings. You can use the vidcontrol utility or 
compile the kernel again using the knobs described in vt(4) man page. I 
have just done this to get yellow text on a black background. I tried the 
grey on blue too but the background blue is not the same in graphics mode, 
it sets a boldened blue appearing much lighter so I changed it.

You achieve the same using sc(4) but you won't get the smaller text and 
you won't get utf-8 characters.

Jamie Griffin