How to change console font in grub2?

stan gryt2 at q.com
Mon Oct 11 22:10:10 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.)

Not really answering your question but you could use setfont (which I
just discovered today, see the thread in test) to set it after boot.
man page explains it, and you have all the fonts
in /lib/kbd/consolefonts/ to experiment with.


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