How to change console font in grub2?

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 12 02:15:44 UTC 2010


  On 10/11/2010 06:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:32:17 -0700
> Dean S. Messing wrote:
>
>> 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.
> Yea, I've noticed the same problems with grub2, but the recommendation
> in that blog to just directly edit the grub config file will get
> you in big trouble when you download a kernel update that uses the
> "official" update-grub tool and wipes out all your changes.
>
> He misses one of the other annoying "helpful" features where
> grub2 persists in disabling the default boot timeout when there
> is some problem with booting once. That is horrible in a virtual
> machine environment where most of the time you never even see
> the console screen, and even though there are 47,621,333 options
> to edit in the 67,529 config files, disabling this "feature"
> isn't one of the easily editable options.
>
> My recommendation would be to wait for grub3 before changing the
> fedora default boot loader :-).
So, is F14 going to be using Grub2?
If yes, does the user have the choice to uninstall it and
iinstall grub1 ?



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