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 Distro
>>      root (hdx,x)
>>      kernel /path/to/kernel vga=xxx
>>     
>
> Hmm, so it does!!!  I'm sure  I remember trying to pass vga=xxx to the
> kernel command line while booting and it failing.  Maybe I was messing
> something up.
>
> 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
> then I  get a font where the  pound sign has morphed  into an accented
> 'u'.   Is  my hybrid  system  (LFS 6.1.1  +  kernel  2.6.24 +  console
> bootscript from LFS 6.3 + vga=1) incapable of getting this right?
>
> Jeremy Henty 
>   

http://wiki.antlinux.com/pmwiki.php?n=HowTos.VgaModes



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