On Mon, 20 May 2002 12:34:41 -0400,  Edward wrote:

>Are you using RH 7.2 with GRUB?

No, but I have put vga='various things' into the lilo.conf

>In /etc/grub.conf, you need to pass the 'vga' parameter to the kernel.  Like
>always, you can use 'ask' so you are asked to select a resolution at
>startup.  For example:
>
>kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda2 vga=2
>
>You also need to edit /etc/sysconfig/i18n to change the 'SYSFONT' line.
>Otherwise, your vga change gets obliterated when you get the boot time
>message of 'Setting default font'.  I changed mine to "lat0-08".  Works
>wonders.

I've also used consolechars to change the fonts around, but there seems to
be a setting somewhere that controls the 'number of lines' per screen that I
don't understand - does this come solely from the 'vga=' line, and is it
necessary to reboot in order to change it?




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