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Subject: Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
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Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Jul 27), Jay O'Brien said:
> 
>>I cannot make it set up the VGA_80x50 and 'green black' parameters 
>>when booting up. I've tried many iterations of the text in 
>>/etc.rc.local or /etc.rc.conf.local and I get errors and failures to boot
>>that forced me to learn about single-user mode to recover.  (Probably a
>>good thing that I had to learn about single-user!)
> 
> 
> :)
>  
> 
>>I would like the system to boot up into VGA_80x50 and green on black, and
>>I'm stumped.
> 
> 
> This should work:
> 
> allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
> 
> ("-m on" enables the mouse)
> 

Thank you, 

Where should I place that instruction?

Jay