LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread lanas
Hi all, When booting a stock LFS system using VmWare (eg. that normally runs Fedora) the resulting text screen is rather small. Is there some parameter, perhaps a kernel parameter, or a font modification that could make the text/console screen larger ? Thanks. --

Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread support
lanas wrote: Hi all, When booting a stock LFS system using VmWare (eg. that normally runs Fedora) the resulting text screen is rather small. Is there some parameter, perhaps a kernel parameter, or a font modification that could make the text/console screen larger ? Thanks. You can

Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:05:28PM +, support wrote: I guess for the livecd it'd be easier to pass it as a kernel parameter with VGA=option. Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it to work under grub and every solution I Googled was lilo-specific. If

Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Henty wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:05:28PM +, support wrote: I guess for the livecd it'd be easier to pass it as a kernel parameter with VGA=option. Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it to work under grub and every solution I Googled

Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Tony Sequeira
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 15:22 +, Jeremy Henty wrote: Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it to work under grub and every solution I Googled was lilo-specific. Indeed it does... title comet - kernel 2.6.24.2 - LFS 6.1 - 16th February 2008 root

Re: vga=... in grub, WAS Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread jasin
Jeremy Henty wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:28:37AM -0500, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Jeremy Henty wrote: Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it to work under grub and every solution I Googled was lilo-specific. Works great in grub: title Some

vga=... in grub, WAS Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:28:37AM -0500, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Jeremy Henty wrote: Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it to work under grub and every solution I Googled was lilo-specific. Works great in grub: title Some Distro root (hdx,x)

Re: vga=... in grub, WAS Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:05:41PM -0500, jasin wrote: Jeremy Henty wrote: Unfortunately, vga=xxx seems to be incompatible with setting FONT=... in /etc/sysconfig/console ! The console spungs back into the default VGA mode during the SysV scripts. And if I *don't* set FONT