Text console too large

[Micah J. Cowan]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 12:58:25PM +0100, abonnema wrote:
> 
> I used stty -a and got 25 rows. Setting it to 23 rows prevents the last
> two rows to disappear. However, I still miss the first two rows.
> 
> I suspect the screen real estate defines for the Belinea are not ok.
> 
> Anyone know how to check and correct this?

I'm not certain this will fix your problem, but it's worth trying.

Add "vga=ask" to your kernel options in /boot/grub/menu.lst, and
manually select from the text menu at bootup. When you find one you
like, use it's short number (0 or 1 or 2 or...) to replace the "ask" in
the kernel options.

Be sure to add it to the commented line:

  # defoptions=vga=ask quiet splash

(the stuff after vga=ask should be what's already in there: order isn't
imporant).

and then "sudo update-grub". Hope that helps!

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