ne... schrieb:
On Oct 14, 2003 at 23:13, James Drabb in a soothing rage wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 11:33, Harry Putnam wrote:
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>>It gives examples of setting vga by appending to the root line like:
>>
>> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=ask
>>
>>doing this and selectinbg various of those offered I see the selected
>>size only lasts about 100 or so lines then the standard size
>>re-emerges so that most of teh boot messages are in the standard size
>>instead of what ever was selected.
>>
>>Anyone know what that is the case?
>>
>>
This gets reset by something in /etc/rc.sysinit. It happened
to me eons ago before I started using the method mentioned
below.
/etc/sysconfig/init, there's something about "colums", set to ~120
Christoph
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