[Bug 276793] vt(4) doesn't appreciate font specified in loader.conf(5) on bios boot

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Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 08:21:29 UTC
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=276793

            Bug ID: 276793
           Summary: vt(4) doesn't appreciate font specified in
                    loader.conf(5) on bios boot
           Product: Base System
           Version: 14.0-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Some People
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: concussious.bugzilla@runbox.com

Hi,

in loader.conf(5) I have:

screen.font="8x16"

Where I have a font supporting more languages installed as "/boot/8x16.fnt".

On the efi boot:
 this works beautifully and is really cool

On bios boot:
 system boots fine but never loads the specified font (zh-tw song titles show
tofu boxes in ls/everything else in vt(4))
 selecting the font after logging in via vidfont(1) does work.

Tested on FreeBSD-14-RELEASE

Thanks!

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