f8t1 LiveCD " vga=..." boot loader parameter

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Wed Sep 12 16:36:11 UTC 2007


On 09/12/2007 12:27 PM, Robert McBroom (TNWestTex) wrote:
>> Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, the startup scripts very "helpfully" load a default font that
>> destroys the compressed text mode selected at boot time. On a normal
>> system, just rename the fonts directory to work around that problem.
>> Then save the console font from bootup and make that the new default
>> (and restore the directory name.)
>>
> What command saves the font?  In Slackware I put 
> 
> setfont -v Cyr-a8x8.psfu.gz 
> 
> in rc.font to get the desired console font.  I can't find that font or
> an equivalent to rc.font in Fedora.
> 

The fonts are in /lib/kbd/consolefonts. The default is set in
/etc/sysconfig/i18n (SYSFONT=)




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