boot loader blank screen

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Mon Jan 4 19:02:23 UTC 2021


On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 11:53 AM John Kennedy <warlock at phouka.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 11:39:08AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> > Yea, this is a feature that needs to be fixed since black on black text
> is
> > a show stopper :(
>
>   Ah, this is part of the "Terminal colours in current" thread?  I saw
> that,
> but didn't correlate it with default black-on-black text.  It looked like
> more of a graphics-mode glitch (blank screen, backlit, signal) initially,
> I'd
> just not seen something like that bite me at the bootloader stage before.
>

To be fair, I'm unsure if this is a failure to draw the characters, or a
color attribute failure introduced. I've not looked deeply and am jumping a
bit to conclusions.

Warner


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