Martin-Éric Racine, le dim. 29 mars 2026 20:05:28 +0300, a ecrit: > su 29.3.2026 klo 19.35 Samuel Thibault ([email protected]) kirjoitti: > > > > Martin-Éric Racine, le dim. 29 mars 2026 19:14:46 +0300, a ecrit: > > > However, I regularly stare at the console to check for problems during > > > bootop. The key problem is that when the font is loaded, the console > > > display is reset just as I'm trying to keep track of what init scripts > > > are printing. > > > > So the problem is actually not that the console loads a font, but that > > it does not keep the content of the screen (and preventing it from > > loading a font wouldn't change at all that issue). > > > > It could be made to do that. > > Why wouldn't preventing it from changing the font help? It would.
Loading a font in the VGA card does *not* change the content of the screen. Clearing the VGA text buffer content does, the console is currently doing exactly that, it's really not related to font loading at all. Samuel
