If you system is BIOS, then you are out of luck, unless there is a graphics card installed with VBE (VESA BIOS Extension), and then only when you
alter the source code (BIOS systems boot loader is text only for newer supported branches, which doesn't permit font size / font settings).
On UEFI systems, there are two possibilities to change font size (and also font type).
The first options is to set the /boot/
loader.conf(5) variable
screen.font= with a value from
/boot/fonts (i.e.: ="12x24" for /boot/fonts/12x24.fnt.gz). Those fonts are all Terminus type.
It's possible to populate
/boot/fonts with
gzip(1)ed
.fnt fonts. For example:
Code:
# cd /boot/fonts
# mv 12x24.fnt.gz 12x24.fnt.gz.orig
# gzip -c /usr/share/vt/fonts/spleen-12x24.fnt > 12x24.fnt.gz
There are some ".fnt" fonts in ports, that can be also used (
x11-fonts/profont ,
x11-fonts/tamsyn), or downloaded from a another source. It seems not all
.fnt fonts are working, based on reports here in forums.
The second option is to set the /etc/
rc.conf(5) variable
allscreens_flags="-f spleen-12x24" (for other fonts look under
/usr/share/vt/fonts, test those executing
vidfont(1)).
The difference between the configuration location is, when from
loader.conf(5), the font is set in the very early stage, beginning at the boot menu.
If configured from
rc.conf(5), the font (size, type) will be set in a late boot stage, when
rc.conf is executed.
