​One of my old mentors was a naval aviator. He would use the phrase
"Bracket and Salvo" to describe kicking the crap out of a problem. But the
term means you fire off all the ship's big guns at a variety of ranges so
that anything in a given square of water gets hit. ​That's what happened
here. Total bombardment and all direct hits. Solved! Thanks.

> Hi Rick,
>
> I would try appending "video=<resolution>" to the end of your kernel
> command line, e.g.
>
> video=1024x768
>
> Or
>
> video=1280x1024
>
> Note that these options worked for me a long time ago, but I haven't
> tested them in a very long time.
>
>
> Douglas R. Reno
> --LFS/BLFS systemd maintainer
> Sent from my cell phone.
>

​Thanks, Douglas. That worked. My monitor supports an oddball resolution of
1028x720, so that gets me near the 1:6 ratio of the physical screen. At
this writing, i have not permanently made the change in GRUB, I'm setting
this at each boot, but I got the idea. Sweet.​


>
> You can increase the fonts size on the run by entering in the virtual
> console
> "setfont iso01-12x22.psfu.gz"
>
> Put this command also in /home/user/.bashrc:
> setfont iso01-12x22.psfu.gz
> and also in /root/.bashrc
>
> Regards,
> Edgar
>
> ​Thanks Edgar. That too also worked. Given that I was able to lower the
resolution, I found the size 16 fonts were plenty readable. Once I had the
actual filename, I was able to find the ​fonts on my system and play around.

>
> My LatGrkyr-12x22 (it's supplied with kbd) might also suit.
>
> But if you want to do it in a framebuffer, ISTR that you need to
> enable the 12x22 font.  That should look the same as the iso1, mine
> is based on that but with the baseline moved slightly.
>
> ĸen
>
​
That's a lovely font, Ken. I actually write in Greek, occasionally, coming
from a classics background, and I remember specifically enabling Greek and
making sure I had everything set to use unicode by default, everywhere, all
the time -- with the exception of "rescue mode." Cheers.
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