boot loader blank screen

[Toomas Soome]

> On 18. Jan 2021, at 19:27, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 7:16 AM Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks at gmail.com <mailto:joh.hendriks at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 16/01/2021 21:15, Alan Somers wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 8:39 AM John Kennedy <warlock at phouka.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 03:51:38PM +0200, Toomas Soome wrote:
>>>>> Could you please check latest current now?:)
>>>>   Success!  With main-c255999-g0bc776f3da70, I've been able to comment
>> out
>>>> the
>>>> screen.textmode=0 (so, back to the default like I originally was).
>>>> 
>> I needed to set vbe_max_resolution="800x600" to get the non text version
>> of the boot loader.
>> 
> 
> Oh, I see.  "hw.vga.textmode" got renamed to "screen.textmode".  And it
> works both ways now.  No need to set vbe_max_resolution.
> -Alan

That is good. and btw, hw.vga.textmode is still there, it is doing what it has been done before — controlling VGA gfx or text mode when you are starting kernel with text mode.

rgds,
toomas