Re: How to boot w/o initrd?
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 07:47, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 05:18, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> > You are thinking VGA console here, aren't you? I'm afraid that this
> > is not an option for PowerPC hardware at all. The framebuffer console
> > is the only way of writing stuff to the video hardware.
>
> LOL. Hmmm, well I suppose that is one of the side-effects of having a
> very clean and relatively legacy-free platform. Time to bust out
> SVGATextMode and the larger fonts, then :-)...
I doubt that would work, but a 12x22 font is available.
If you configure it as the only choice, it will be used.
CONFIG_FONT_SUN12x22=y
With the new 2560x1600 display, even the 12x22 font will
be too small. We need 16x32 and 24x48 fonts, or TrueType.
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