From: Bob Spratt (bobs@oakbrook)
Date: 04/12/93 

From: bobs@oakbrook (Bob Spratt)
Subject: Re: [?] Setting default video mode on boot
Date: 12 Apr 1993 23:20:00 GMT

Lane Spiers (lspiers@nma.mnet.uswest.com) wrote:
: I recently had to reload my SLS distribution, and in the process it
: rewrote the boot disk (no, I'm still not using LILO.) Some time ago
: I saw a trick to set the default video mode on the boot disk. The
: current SLS distribution boots to 80x43, which is a bit small for my
: liking. I can't remember how I set it before. Can anyone help???

Try using the rdev command. The command syntax is rdev -v /dev/fd0 MODE
where mode is the default vido mode you wish to use. Type rdev -U for
a list of the available video modes.