Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:05:01 -0400 From: "JJB" <Barbish3@adelphia.net> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, "Jay O'Brien" <jayobrien@att.net> Cc: FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Console 50-lines at bootup? Message-ID: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGCEOGGHAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <20040727224202.GD71175@dan.emsphone.com>
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What Dan meant to say is add this line to your rc.conf file and
reboot
allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dan Nelson
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:42 PM
To: Jay O'Brien
Cc: FreeBSD - questions
Subject: Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
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)
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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