Boot/console question.

[Michael ODonnell]

>> I've always managed to work past this, but I'm damn curious to
>> know if it can be avoided entirely, e.g., if one of the "vga=ask"
>> options might help out, or somesuch.
>
> The initscripts of modern distros all seem to reset the video mode
> and/or font during boot.  I suspect it's something to do with
> i18n/Unicode support.  So a kernel parameter won't help because
> the initscripts come after.

Kernel boot command line parameters are available in /proc/cmdline and
I've observed that a number of scripts take notice of them there and
modify their behaviors accordingly.