Setting console VGA mode

[Emil Payne]

Brian McKee wrote:
> 2009/7/18 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/7/17 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>>> display is 80x60. I set this by adding
>>>
>>> vga=6
>>>
>>> to the end of my kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
>>>
>>> I also removed the "quiet" and "splash" parameters.
>>>
>>> However, although this works, it is reset back to 80x25 as soon as init starts.
> 
> I just flipped mine to vga=6 and then to vga=791 (was at 80x25)
> I think the missing step for you is runng 'sudo update-grub' after you
> made your changes, so that the initrd.img is regenerated.
> 

I had to set mine as
vga=0x305
for it to work.
For some reason it wasn't working right with a straight decimal number.
Jaunty