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With main-c255999-g0bc776f3da70, I've been able to comment out >> the >> screen.textmode=0 (so, back to the default like I originally was). >> > > Sort of! Now textmode works again. But the hw.vga.textmode setting is > ignored. Instead, I'm always in text mode; I can't boot into graphics > mode. This is at main-c256008-gde57c3d88258 on an Ivy Bridge system. Looks like you did not notice the change to screen.textmode : QUOTE commit babda0952f8355a89b3241d5e8943c7da0fa4f6b Author: Toomas Soome AuthorDate: 2021-01-06 11:46:34 +0000 Commit: Toomas Soome CommitDate: 2021-01-06 12:38:55 +0000 loader: instead of hw.vga.textmode, use screen.textmode hw.vga.textmode is directing VT VGA backend to use text mode. The default screen mode for BIOS loader is text, and default screen mode for VT VGA backend is graphics (unless we are running on hypervisor or hw.vga.textmode is set to 1). Using hw.vga.textmode for loader does remove possibility to have graphical mode VT VGA with text mode loader. screen.textmode can have possible values "0" to disable text mode, and "1" to set text mode. END QUOTE === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)