On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Jukka Marin wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 10:08:48PM -0500, Allen Briggs wrote:
> > It looks good, except for one thing.  I'm using a mono VGA monitor
> > right now, and at the beginning of the boot, the text changes to
> > a really faint grey.  What color is this supposed to be, and why
> > is it changing colors "for" me? I assume this is wscons-related...
> > What's going on, and why?  How can I change it easily?
> 
> wscons seems to use green color for kernel messages (the ones that
> were printed on red background by pcvt).  Actually, the green looks
> cool :-) on my laptop but I can imagine it get's almost unreadable
> on certain monitors..
> 
> No, I have no idea of how to change it.

How about building a kernel with

	options WS_KERNEL_FG=WSCOL_GREEN

commented out? Actually, it does look really cool on a color monitor. 
You can never please everyone. :/