On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > What is the simplest way to get a higher resolution screen when > booting gentoo into console mode? > > I used to have something in /boot/grub/grub.conf that did that but I > have forgotten the full syntax. My best guess is: > [...] vga=0x31a video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap > on kernel line. > > With that in place, at bootup the terminal expands to a (quite a lot) > bigger size, but it's only momentary and then right back down to what > is I guess default. > > So either I missed something in the kernel or that stanza is outdated > now. > > Or maybe, FB doesn't work for vbox guest vm. > > (ps I'm not interest in wasting huge amounts of time with the KMS > approach.)
See if you have /etc/init.d/consolefont running at startup, it may be changing your font from the one you see initially.
