From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 13:24:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fellspt.charm.net (fellspt.charm.net [199.0.70.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06AE015534 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:22:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dutch@charm.net) Received: from charm.net (coretel-116-074.charm.net [209.143.116.74]) by fellspt.charm.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA23979; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 01:48:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37C4D536.F4B04A98@charm.net> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 01:48:38 -0400 From: Dutch Collins X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: "Kave p.Ram" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: customize the behaviour of the boot-loader References: <19990825215103.51267.qmail@hotmail.com> <19990825225822.B265@marder-1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Ovens wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 09:50:55PM +0000, Kave p.Ram wrote: > > Hi ! > > How do I customize the behaviour of the boot-loader ? > > I've read the man page for : > > boot(8) - system bootstrapping procedures > > > > and what I was looking for was how to make console 80x50 instead of default > > 80x25 or something . > > for example in linux if one uses lilo , he could edit the /etc/lilo.conf and > > add vga=extended to that file . > > when I read the boot(8) for FreeBSD it didn't mention anything about this > > feature. > > the man file mentioned "/boot.config" which I believe is the appropriate > > file to lilo.conf . > > > > Take a look at the vidcontrol(1) manpage. When you pick the settings > you want add then to the ``allscreens'' line in /etc/rc.conf. > > I set mine to 80x30. This is from my /etc/rc.conf: > > font8x8="iso-8x8" > font8x14="iso-8x14" > font8x16="iso-thin-8x16" > allscreens_flags="-m on VGA_80x30" > > The ``-m on'' turns the console mouse on. To use 80x50 you'll need > to set ``font8x8'' (it's set to ``NO'' in /etc/defaults/rc.conf) > to what ever charset you use (files are in /usr/share/syscons/fonts). > > HTH > > > first : is it the file to edit for customizing such features ? > > if not , which file should be edited for making such features permanent > > instead of doing them manually each time when booting. > > > > Thanx for any suggestion :-) > > > You answered a detail I have been working on, thanks. I searched for a description of 'allscreens_flags= ' and got nothing. Used, 'man -k . Is it a secret code? Anyway, I guess I will tinker with it in order to get some color text that is readable for logins. I ran into this when I generated a new kernel; warning pseudo-device log not valid, or something like that, I did not take notes just commented it out. Ever see that when 'make' on FreeBSD 3.2R-GENERIC. The new kernel is working fine - I cannot figure out why the process complained. -dutch ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message