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> Vmode works nicely in DOS but when you boot to BL you are back to the
> original size/shape text.
>
> Another method that takes less experimentation with modes:
>
> mode con lines=43, 25 or 50 changes number of text lines

Also does not persist in linux.

On my Toshiba Satellite 350CDS (100MHz) I disabled stretched text in BIOS 
and typed mode con lines=43 and it filled the screen with 43 lines of 
text.  50 lines leaves an inch empty top and bottom like 25 lines.
I put this line into autoexec.bat.  It looks no worse than stretched text 
and the same as what you get with vga=ask, followed by 2, in linux.

Unstretched 25 lines looks better (as does framebuffer text in linux, or 
VESA text modes without cursor from vmode).

Can you find a way to add a cursor to VESA text modes (graphical) in DOS?

> Sindi