no joy. if anything the boot text is even smaller Here is my kernel options line: security=apparmor mitigations=off rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau nouveau.modeset=0 nosimplefb=1 msr.allow_writes=on drm.debug=0x1e log_buf_len=8M video=HDMI-A-2:d kernel is 6.2.10-1-default