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No longer starts the VGA in text mode

Open OleStrohm opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

I just updated from pre-0.10, and now the vga starts in a graphics mode, which makes it more difficult to get start printing simple things.

I looked through the features, but I couldn't find any reference to a text mode, so has it been removed entirely?

OleStrohm avatar Aug 08 '22 12:08 OleStrohm

Yes, it has been removed UEFI doesn't support text mode, so to allow using the same kernel code on BIOS and UEFI, bootloader now sets up a framebuffer unconditionally.

bjorn3 avatar Aug 08 '22 12:08 bjorn3

We now have some migration guides that explain how to switch from VGA text mode to a framebuffer.

phil-opp avatar Jan 02 '23 12:01 phil-opp