Re: Loader goes to LINES=16 and kernel stays on that :(

On 2025-05-12 22:36, Toomas Soome wrote:
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>> On 12. May 2025, at 22:50, Jakob Alvermark <jakob@alvermark.net> wrote:
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>> On 2025-05-10 22:13, Adrian Chadd wrote:
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>>> On Sat, 10 May 2025 at 13:10, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
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>>>     Yea. This is due to the new, larger font and a hidden bug.
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>>> Hasn't this been fixed in -HEAD? I thought tsoome was working on it.
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>>> Oh, here:
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>>> https://reviews.freebsd.org/D50258
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>>> Want to try that out and see if it fixes things?
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>> This has a very weird effect on my laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad X13 Gen 4, 
>> 1920x1200 screen)
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>> The first few lines from the loader looks normal, but then it clears 
>> the screen veery sloowly. I can see big blocks of the text being erased.
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>> After the screen has been cleared, it starts printing "Loading 
>> /boot/default/loader.conf" etcetera, with a GIANT FONT, really really 
>> slowly.
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>> Then it switches to the small font (I have "screen.font=8x14" in my 
>> loader.conf) and displays the menu quickly.
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> giant font hints that you do not have loader.efi updated in ESP, that 
> is you have the font but not D50258. (D50258 probably has to have || 
> in its check;)
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> The screen clear is something I’m working about now. There are some 
> things to change about it - we have screen map and should use it to 
> skip “clearing” the clear areas, but resolution and font changes need 
> a bit of attention.
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> rgds,
> toomas
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Yes, I didn't think about updating the loader in the ESP.

I did that now and it works just as before.


Jakob