Re: Some notes from recent 10.0_RC1 installs

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 08:18:05PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> With 1024x768, we get a 64 x 24 text screen. Perhaps we need a different
> default font size for this resolution.

Definitively! This has also been reported for some macppc models.
We should have small fonts available, it probably is just a matter of adding
font options to the GENERIC kernel and testing.


> 4) UEFI NetBSD shows up in the BIOS menu of various systems as just "UEFI
>    OS". Is it possible to have a custom name, perhaps user-configurable,
>    so we know which OS we're booting?

Yes, but  not trivial. We now supposedly have access to efi runtime services
on x86 which should allow us to configure "boot options" for each device
(that is where the menu gets the name from), but it currently requires
stuff from pkgsrc to do it manually, which also means (as of now) there is
no way to do it automatically in the installers.

Martin