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On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> What is the simplest way to get a higher resolution screen when
> booting gentoo into console mode?
>
> I used to have something in /boot/grub/grub.conf that did that but I
> have forgotten the full syntax. =A0My best guess is:
> =A0 =A0[...] vga=3D0x31a video=3Dvesafb:mtrr,ywrap
> on kernel line.
>
> With that in place, at bootup the terminal expands to a (quite a lot)
> bigger size, but it's only momentary and then right back down to what
> is I guess default.
>
> So either I missed something in the kernel or that stanza is outdated
> now.
>
> Or maybe, FB doesn't work for vbox guest vm.
>
> (ps I'm not interest in wasting huge amounts of time with the KMS
> approach.)

See if you have /etc/init.d/consolefont running at startup, it may be
changing your font from the one you see initially.