From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 27 23:05:08 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35C9816A4FA for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:05:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta13.adelphia.net (mta13.mail.adelphia.net [68.168.78.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C79B43D55 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:05:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Barbish3@adelphia.net) Received: from barbish ([67.20.101.71]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with SMTP id <20040727230502.ZOA28609.mta13.adelphia.net@barbish>; Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:05:02 -0400 From: "JJB" To: "Dan Nelson" , "Jay O'Brien" Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 19:05:01 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20040727224202.GD71175@dan.emsphone.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Importance: Normal cc: FreeBSD - questions Subject: RE: Console 50-lines at bootup? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Barbish3@adelphia.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 23:05:08 -0000 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"