Unable to login - Cannot open font file true, previous help not working

[Fred Smith]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 03:08:56PM +0930, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 21 April 2013, Alexandre Fernandes sent:
> > I got the message: cannot open font file true. I found some help such
> > as "edit your /etc/default/grub file, and on the lie with
> > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX there is a parameter that says SYSFONT=True". All
> > help I found online did not work because I can't login in Fedora and
> > therefore can't access the terminal. The only thing I'm able to use
> > command line is GRUB that does not accept any of the usual commands.

I get that same message on every boot. it is not fatal, so if you 
can't boot (I missed the original posting, so I'm trying to infer
from this one...) that's probably not the problem.
> 
> You'll have a hard job fixing that file without booting into the OS, or
> connecting the drive to another working computer.  I suggest another
> approach.
> 
> I assume that you're in the GRUB command line (before the OS boots),
> rather than the usual system one.  Rather than do that, use the GRUB
> options to edit boot options, rather than go to a command line.  Going
> from memory, it's probably hitting the "e" key instead of the "c" key,
> while you're in the GRUB menu.  Now you can (temporarily) change how
> it'll boot, by deleting unwanted text in the kernel parameter, and begin
> booting.  If this works, then you can work on editing
> the /etc/default/grub file, to make a permanent change.
> 

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