[CentOS] Centos 7 - How To set text console resolution to 80x24

Thu Oct 23 15:46:51 UTC 2014
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 05:39:56PM +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
>
> Il giorno gio, 23/10/2014 alle 17.33 +0200, Dario Lesca ha scritto:
> > Il giorno gio, 23/10/2014 alle 10.29 -0400, Jonathan Billings ha
> > scritto:
> > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:05:33PM +0200, Dario Lesca wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Like subject say ... hot to configure the resolution of text console to
> > > > standard 80x24 ?
> > > 
> > > I believe you can just add 'vga=F00' (those are zeros) to your kernel
> > > lines and it'll use 80x25 for the non-X VGA console.
> > 
> > Not work: if I put vga=F00 into kernel line (at the initial kernel list,
> > press 'E' then edit the "linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10..." line), when I press
> > Ctrl-X I get the error "error: unrecognized number"
> 
> Oppss ... This is a my error, do not put the vga=F00 at the end of
> line ... now I have put it to the end of line and the error
> "unrecognized number" has disappeared and the server boot.
> 
> But the problem still exist: the resolution is too  high, like without
> vga=F00

Oops, that works in EL6 but not in EL7.  Try 'nomodeset'.

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>