console font in 9.10. . .

[Kaj Haulrich]

Tom H wrote:
>> has anyone managed to change the console font in Kubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10)
>> with Grub2?
>> I Googled and found some ideas on how to change that font. Some howto's
>> suggest to change /etc/default/grub and to add following line:
>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash
>> video=uvesafb:mode_option=1024x768-32 at 80"
>> (and comment (#) the uvesafb entry in /etc/blacklist-framebuffer.conf)
>> Alas, this doesn't make any changes to the console font. . .
>>     
>
> You have to use grub-mkfont to create a pf2 font. You then copy/move
> it to /boot/grub and use it in /etc/grub.d/00... with loadfont.
>
> However, in my experience (and I have not tried to change this), once
> your video driver is loaded, the console font is used, which you have
> to set elsewhere.
>
>   
Some grub2 settings can be modified by installing and running
startupmanager. Such as fonts, text or no text during boot etc..
HTH
Kaj Haulrich.
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