console fonts

When I boot up I see the 12x22 fonts for a while then it switches to the tiny fonts default font about half way throught the boot process. My goal is to have the system running with the 12x22 fonts. I do not plan to run X. Does anyone know how why it swtiches away from my custom fonts ? running: 3.17.0-rc-5+ on a MacBookPro with EFI and booting the kernel with the efi-stub from gummiboot. built with: Support for frame buffer devices EFI-based Framebuffer Support Framebuffer Console support Select compiled-in fonts Sparc console 12x22 font