One of my vbox gentoo vms, on boot, comes up on the grub screen in a nice hi-res console. Very early in the boot procedure that hi-res console collapses into a standard console resoltion and stays there from then on.
It is possible to set things so that one maintains a hi-res console all the time... Correct? If so, I'd like to know what needs to be set. I have followed up reading about this subject in gentoo documents, one source says you cannot make any driver selections in kernel setup at: Device drivers -> Graphics support -> Framebuffer Devices -> Make no selections of drivers here There are choices within the address above that look like the kind of thing you'd check but the guide I was reading said any choices there would block KMS which could get settings at:. Device drivers -> Graphics support -> Console display driver support ---> Frame buffer console sup. is default selected an [*]Frame Buffer console sup is default selected cannot be changed (on kernel-4.9.10) ditto for: [*]map the conosle tor primary disp device There are several more there but these two may be the place: []initial number of console screen columns []initial number of console screen rows There isn't much else there... things like scrollback size [...] and initil console size So are these settings what control KMS console sizing? For example if you weree to set something like 140 and 60 for columns and rows... would then have a console that size Or is it the settings in /etc/defalt/grub where their are a couple of options about geometry? Both maybe?