Bootup console screen size problem

[Michael Ben-Gershon]

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