Re: Bootup console screen size problem

[Michael Ben-Gershon <mybg netvision net il>]

Scott Stevens wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 03:14, Michael Ben-Gershon wrote:
>
> > In my previous version of Linux (RH 7.2) I had a kernel
> > parameter vga=1 to set an 80x50 console screen for bootup. I have
> > done this with GRUB/Fedora, but this is reset to 80x25 when
> > the default font is set. I tried commenting out the lines
> > which do this in rc.sysinit but the size gets changed again
> > later on.
> >
> > Surely there must be a way of doing this in a manner which does
> > not require hacking deep into the startup system?
> >
> > Any help would be MUCH appreciated.
> >
> > Michael Ben-Gershon
> > mybg netvision net il
>
>
> Try putting something like:
>
>     SYSFONT="LatArCyrHeb-08"
>
> in the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n.

The file already has:

SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"

Is that the problem? Should I be changing that to what you gave above?

Michael Ben-Gershon
mybg netvision net il