Comment # 11 on bug 904533 from Luigi Baldoni

(In reply to Andrei Borzenkov from comment #9)
> (In reply to Luigi Baldoni from comment #8)
> > 
> > If dracut 037-17.6.1 should already address the problem, could you please
> > detail the steps necessary to change the console font? Because if this is
> > the case I'm clearly doing something wrong.
> 
> Did you try to rebuild initrd using "mkinitrd" to be sure settings are
> included? Did you test booting in runlevel 1, 3, 5 (add 1 or 3 or 5 to
> kernel command line)?
> 
> If it does not work, could you attach output of
> 
> lsinitrd /boot/initrd  etc/sysconfig/console
> lsinitrd /boot/initrd  etc/locale.conf
> lsinitrd /boot/initrd  etc/vconsole.conf
> rpm -q dracut
> 
> If you stop in dracut (add rdbreak to kernel command line) do you still have
> problem? The simplest way to test it is to "ls" or "cat" some file with
> non-ASCII name/content; your root is mounted as /sysroot at this point.

Unfortunately none of the suggested tests produced a different behaviour.

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