F18 - cannot set console font in vconsole.conf

I have done a fresh install of Fedora 18.

When I press Alt+F2 to call up a console, the font is very small.

I did a 'yum install terminus-fonts-console', and then 'setfont ter-122b'. The result is ok.

Now I am trying to make it permanent. According to the F18 release notes, I must put the following line in /etc/vconsole.conf -

FONT="ter-122b"

I have done that and rebooted, but it does not change the default font - I still have to change it manually (or put it in .bash_profile).

Any suggestions?