Changing font size for boot messages after zbm?

[gc-user]

In order to have all boot messages fit onto the screen and being able to be checked out on tty1, I'd like to temporarily reduce the font size of the boot messages after zbm started booting the BE.

So far I tried (after installing terminus-font (void linux):

• adding rd.vconsole.font=ter-112b (as per https://old.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/10lrgxu/zfsbootmenu_font_size/j5z078l/) in kcl in refind and zbm kcl edit(or) - did not change anything
• adding zb,.sutosize=off in kcl in refind - only reduces font size for zbm, not the boot process afterwards.

(Installing tmux in hopes to be able to just scroll up on tty1 didn't work either (of course incl. reboot.)

That's all the ideas I got from searching.
Maybe you have the working one for me? :-)
(It's probably an embarrassingly obvious one...)

Thanks in advance!

[classabbyamp]

once zbm hands off to the OS, it's up to your OS to set the font size. Consult your distro's documentation about that.

[gc-user]

Thanks for your reply.
As zbm "comes with" kcl, aren't those for giving "the OS" instructions and "the OS" "has to obey" to those? Or are those just for the short time of zbm booting the BE - and then "the OS" (within the BE) takes over and its own kcl?

[zdykstra]

The command line for the final OS kernel is controlled via org.zfsbootmenu:commandline set somewhere on the pool/dataset hierarchy. Your system would not boot if you passed it the same kernel arguments that ZFSBootMenu's kernel uses or vice-versa - they're entirely different from each other.

[gc-user]

Thanks for the reminder!
Also, I thought the "edit kcl" option in zbm would to the same temporarily / for this session what that command does permanently.

But it seems the kcl command I was using does not work either way (i.e. even when set with the command, so I ended up (finding and) un-commenting the default font option in /etc/rc.conf which did the trick. (At first, any rc setting would be "too late" in the process, but as the font size is changed "retroactively", it's not a problem)

Thank you both for your help still!

[zdykstra]

Excellent, glad it's working for you!