[Bug 261311] loader sets console colors to white on black

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From: <bugzilla-noreply_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2022 20:39:38 UTC

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=261311

Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|vt newcons does not respect |loader sets console colors
                   |colors set in kernel        |to white on black
                   |configuration file          |
                 CC|                            |tsoome@freebsd.org

--- Comment #5 from Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> ---
Try setting these undocumented tunables:

teken.fg_color
teken.bg_color

It appears this is not an issue with vt, but rather an issue with the loader
always setting these to provide a white-on-black console.

See commits:

3001e0c942d80 
233ab015c0d73
a536ed419e6ab

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