How to change console font in grub2?

[Dean S. Messing]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:10:10, Stan wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Dean S. Messing 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.

Great idea! I'll give this a whirl when I can grub a few minutes.

By the way, this fellow:

 <http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2010/03/grub2-poor-design-decisions.html>

has written some superb articles on his blog about Grub2 on Fedora.  The
above URL is some of his observations with which I heartily agree,
having begun to wade into the grub2 "system" myself. 

Dean