Re: Changing font size in console

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 01:15:39 -0500 ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com> imparted to
us:

> On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:31:49 +0800 "Moke Tsing Moh Lim"
> <moke amcpl net>
> imparted to us:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to change the font on all my console (without X) to
> > something
> > that RedHat 7.1 Installation bootup screen.  It is twice as small as
> > the
> > default screen I have after I setup the box.
> > 
> > Those font seem great to me as I can view most of the log within a
> > single
> > line.
> > 
> > Any help, please.
> 
> For some reason they made it harder than it used to be. It used to be
> you could add a single line to lilo.conf and get what you wanted. Now
> it
> starts out right then shanges to the monster font again part of the
> way
> through the boot process. I found a fix, though I don't know if it's
> the
> best approach.
> 
> First, edit lilo.conf and add the line
> 
> vga=ask
> 
> someplace before the first kernel 'image=' entry. Then reboot and try
> the options. For me 6 is great. Realize at this point it will change
> part way through. Once you have what you want change 'ask' to the
> setting you need. Mine is vga=6 which is about right.

If I could spell, the net part would say something about 'clobbering.'
Instead I don't know what it says.
 
> It took me some time to find out what was clobebring it during boot. I
> finally tracked it down to the file /sbin/setsysfont as being the
> culprit. Not knowing how to fix it, and not wanting to spend a lot of
> time on it, I took the lazy approach: I commented out some lines in
> it.


> Now, you can manually do that every time, or if you're lazy (like me)
> you can edit /sbin/mkbootdisk to do it automatically. I won't include
> the whole script. Here's what I changed which is near the bottom of
> the
> file:
> 
> 
> 
> cat > $MOUNTDIR/syslinux.cfg <<EOF
> default lin
> prompt 1
> display boot.msg
> timeout 500
> label lin
> 	kernel vmlinuz
> 	append $INITRDARG root=$rootdev vga=6
> EOF
> 
> chmod 644 $MOUNTDIR/syslinux.cfg
> 
> 
> That's one part. I changed the timeout is all I did, so unless you
> need
> or want to do it, you can leave that part alone. Here's the main bit
> of
> change:

A little minor error here. Actually, the above is also where you set the
'vga=' setting and you won't get what you want without it. The next part
was actually the minor part in which I changed the bootmessage instead
of any actual parameters.

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