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 at netvision.net.il
> 

Try putting something like:

    SYSFONT="LatArCyrHeb-08"

in the file /etc/sysconfig/i18n.