small font

[Jazzalex]

When booting linux in some distros the font is big, in some cases small.
What I mean is the bootup info :

xyz ......... [ok]
yzx .......... [failed]

and so on.


Can anyone tell where to change this option in order to make it small ?

Thanks

-- A l e x

[Choozo]

If you mean upper- and lower caps, and use SysV type of init scripts, have a look in /etc/init.d/functions.
You will find what you need to change in the echo_success(), echo_failure(), echo_passed() and echo_warning() functions.

[IsaacKuo]

If you use lilo as the bootloader, then you can adjust the boot resolution by editing lilo.conf and running "lilo". See this discussion for more details:

lilo discussion

If the resolution is 640x480, the text will look big. If the resolution is 1024x768, the text will look small.

Is that what you were looking for?

[Jazzalex]

yes - I suppose that was it. It was simply depending on the resultion. Since my new graphix driver's working the problem's solved.

I'm using grub instead of lilo which might have similar options - which I havn't figured out yet.

Thanks

-- A l e x

[bwkaz]

In grub, you need to change the "vga=XXX" parameter that gets passed to the kernel command line. Make it match one of the numbers shown here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-.../msg00433.html

in the second table. But you'll need to make it decimal, not hex (to convert, do an echo $((0x31A)) (or whatever hex number) at a bash prompt, and it will show you the decimal equivalent).

To make grub actually use that, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and modify the kernel command line.