cannot change font size in single user mode

[emmanuel_uk]

Hi, I want to learn how to decrease/increase font size when in single user mode

(and change to 132 columns) in mandy 2005 LE

 

I am looking for a command line.

vga=ask for grub does the job during boot but then it seems init.d

or something reverts to some mandriva default size font (and number of columns)

 

I have read about toe, stty, setterm, env

Infocmp takes the -w argument

Setterm takes -linewrap on but nothing about 132 columns

This has left me very confused as to how fonts are initialised in single mode.

 

Any idea?

Thanks

 

 

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[ianw1974]

You have to set it in your lilo.conf or grub.conf on the kernel loading line by putting, for example:

 

vga=773

 

for 1024x768. Of course, this sets it permanent, not sure if you can do it on the fly.

[emmanuel_uk]

Thanks, you gave me half the solution

If I use vga=ask single then at some point during boot the font resize to its default.

Strangely vga=7xx single makes it permanent (this kind of behaviour difference vga=ask vs vga=7xx I would never had imagined)

 

Of course, this sets it permanent, not sure if you can do it on the fly.

That is what I am trying to do. Once in single mode.

I will post here if I ever find out