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Subject: Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
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Dan, Erik, JJB...

Thank you all, that worked. And once I saw the whole screen with 
green on black, (ugh!) I went back to white on black. But now at 
least I know how to do it!

Now to find the syntax for allscreens_flags and learn about that 
argument. I may want to set different virtual terminals to 
different settings.

Jay O'Brien
Rio Linda, CA USA

Ref: FreeBSD console 50 lines


JJB wrote:

> 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