[Bug 282955] FBSD 14Stable Failure to find fonts using non-standard boot partition.

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=282955

            Bug ID: 282955
           Summary: FBSD 14Stable Failure to find fonts using non-standard
                    boot partition.
           Product: Base System
           Version: 14.2-STABLE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: kern
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: dewayne@heuristicsystems.com.au

While transitioning from 12.4S to 14.2S I finally moved from sc to vt and
booting (as usual) from a non-standard partition, the new vt system displays:
"failed to add font: /boot/fonts/16x32.fnt" for all expected fonts.

The system is BIOS using UFS2.

The boot partition is mounted as /fred, so to reconstruct:
# make world DESTDIR=/new_world
# make installkernel DESTDIR=/fred
# cp -pv /new_world/boot /fred/
creates /fred/boot/fonts
which vt can not find, as fonts/ is expected under /fred/fonts.

So, trying the following soft-links failed, (as loader isn't meant to be an OS
;) )
ln -s boot/fonts /fred/fonts
nor
ln -s /fred/boot/fonts /fred/fonts

The only solution that works is to 
mv /fred/boot/fonts /fred/fonts

Clearly something is amiss.  Perhaps loader.conf needs a pointer to correctly
reference where fonts are located, or fonts need to be discovered in the same
manner as loader.conf, under a boot/?


Please note that the only change required to /fred/boot/loader.conf is to 
kern.module_path="/fred/boot/kernel"
(to enable devmatch to find linker.hints file, while module_path is unchanged
from default, to find kmods)


This is different from https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=280692

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