Re: Bootup console screen size problem

[Scott Stevens]

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(a)netvision.net.il
>   
Try putting something like:

    SYSFONT="LatArCyrHeb-08"

in the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n.