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this using option "-b" to the boot blocks. It is smartest to compile a font into your kernel (See LINT), but not mandatory, but apart from the cursor you will see nothing on the screen until you load a font. This mode allows XF86_VGA16 to run in 800x600 mode on otherwise unsupported graphics hardware. A number of buglets in the cursor handling in syscons may become visible this way.