UEFI console font strangeness

[Christoph Harder]

Hello,

various changes to the UEFI settings didn't help. The firmware was already the latest available.
To proceed I decided to run the setup again an use the Legacy BIOS option in the installer. Now it works.

Best regards,
Christoph


Am 08.07.2023 um 21:22 schrieb Christoph Harder:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm currently trying to install Dragonfly BSD on a Biostar A68N-2100K, however I'm having problem with the font rendering .
> To be more precise the font in the console is cut in half and only the upper half of the screen is refreshed/updated but with 25 half lines. I hope you can guess what I try to describe.
> 
> The Mainboard does offer two option to boot, UEFI and BBS, so the usb stick I'm booting/installing from is listed twice in the boot options, as "somethin-something UEFI" and as "something-something".
> I guess it's some kind of compatibility mode that the board tries to provide.
> Anyway when I boot from the usb stick without the UEFI-Option ("something-something") the fonts in the console and setup are rendered as usual.
> However when I select the boot option with the UEFI-Option ("somethin-something UEFI") the fonts are cut in half and the screen is updated incorrectly.
> 
> Now I could use the option without the UEFI and it would probably work, however I've had problems getting the board to always choose this option.
> It does seem to prefer the UEFI-Option and I havent got it to work reliably by selecting the non UEFI-Option as first boot option.
> 
> Has anyone ever had such problems with configuring a UEFI board and can maybe give me some hints what I might be doing wrong?
> 
> Best regards,
> Christoph
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