On 02/25/2009 11:05 PM, Rajko M. wrote:
On Wednesday 25 February 2009 06:41:38 am Joe Morris wrote:
On 02/25/2009 01:24 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/02/24 22:56 (GMT-0500) Bob S composed:
"Console font size is normally set by the VGA= parameter on the kernel line: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.3"
So I went to that url and saw that there was a vga statement in LILO but I assumed it would apply to Grub as well. Went to my menu.lst file and there is a vga statement. It is vga=0x346. I changed that to 0x31a and rebooted. No change in font sizes while booting.
Did you remember to run mkinitrd? Changing the setting actually accomplished nothing, as that is a part of the initrd. mkinitrd will use this setting to change the setting of the resolution for your screen. HTH.
Since when is so?
The menu.lst change is visible next time GRUB was reading it. More often problem is that user is changing currently mounted /boot/grub/menu.lst, while real boot runs from another partition.
jmorris:/home/joe # mkinitrd Kernel image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-9-default Initrd image: /boot/initrd-2.6.27.7-9-default Root device: /dev/md0 (mounted on / as ext3) Kernel Modules: hwmon thermal_sys processor thermal dock scsi_mod libata pata_via sata_via ata_generic raid1 jbd mbcache ext3 ide-core via82cxxx ide-pci-generic fan edd crc-t10dif sd_mod usbcore ohci-hcd uhci-hcd ehci-hcd ff-memless hid usbhid raid0 xor async_tx async_memcpy async_xor raid456 Features: block usb md resume.userspace resume.kernel Bootsplash: openSUSE (1280x1024) 28039 blocks The bootsplash line above depends on the vga setting in grub unless it is fed the -s option. It has been that way as far back as I remember, 6.4. From the mkinitrd man page, "A few options can be specified via the kernel command line to modify some hardcoded values in the "/init" script. They are read from /proc/cmdline." I would assume that is how it does it. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org