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Date:      Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:04:04 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Console 50-lines at bootup?
Message-ID:  <20040727230404.GA73966@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <4106DD5E.3020908@att.net>
References:  <4106D878.6010804@att.net> <20040727224202.GD71175@dan.emsphone.com> <4106DD5E.3020908@att.net>

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On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:55:26PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> 
> > In the last episode (Jul 27), Jay O'Brien said:
> > 
> >>I cannot make it set up the VGA_80x50 and 'green black' parameters 
> >>when booting up. I've tried many iterations of the text in 
> >>/etc.rc.local or /etc.rc.conf.local and I get errors and failures to boot
> >>that forced me to learn about single-user mode to recover.  (Probably a
> >>good thing that I had to learn about single-user!)
> > 
> > 
> > :)
> >  
> > 
> >>I would like the system to boot up into VGA_80x50 and green on black, and
> >>I'm stumped.
> > 
> > 
> > This should work:
> > 
> > allscreens_flags="-m on 80x50 green black"
> > 
> > ("-m on" enables the mouse)
> > 
> 
> Thank you, 
> 
> Where should I place that instruction?

/etc/rc.conf



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Erik Trulsson
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