Bootup console screen size problem

[Gertjan Vinkesteijn]

Michael Ben-Gershon wrote:
> 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 at 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 at netvision.net.il
> 
> 

I always set vga=791, why? G.d knows

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