How to change console font in grub2?

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 8 06:21:08 UTC 2010


On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the secret sauce that's needed to change the colour of
> the font in a high-res (1600x1200) console when using grub2 in F13? (By
> "console" I mean the "framebuffer-based" console.  X isn't running yet.)
>
> The back-story:
>
>   Last evening I built and installed grub2 on my new F13 system.  Turns
>   out that "vga=838" (i.e. 1600x1200x16) at the end of the kernel line
>   no longer works. In Grub1 it gave a nice 1600x1200 console outside
>   of X.
>
>   Below, I've marked the two magic lines I added to the "menuentry" in
>   /boot/grub/grub.cfg to get the hi-res console.  But the font is an
>   ugly hard-to-read green on black and I don't know how to make it
>   white on black like I had before.
>
> menuentry "F13, with Linux 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
>
>     ## These two lines give a 1600x1200 console ##
>        set gfxmode=1600x1200x16
>        insmod vbe
>     ##############################################
>
>        insmod ext2
>        set root='(hd1,2)'
>        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set d5b13a6e-3c0c-432a-bcff-5f1706acea29
>        linux   /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 root=LABEL=root ro rd_LVM_LV=vg_F13/lv_root rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset
>        initrd  /initramfs-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64.img
> }

I haven't used grub2 with Fedora in a while but I've never come across
anything but white-on-black. It sounds like your video settings are
screwed up. You might have to add "set gfxpayload=1600x1200x16" after
"set gfxmode=1600x1200x16".

I'm sure whether that really matters but "insmod vbe" might have to
come before "set gfxmode=1600x1200x16".

You also try to add "insmod gfxterm".


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