console font in 9.10. . . impossible with Grub2?

[Tom H]

>> > 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.

> And the console font is exactly what I need. I don't bother about the Grub
> font (Grub menu), which is OK.
> In other words: where is 'elsewhere'?

> Since no one could provide a working answer to my question yet: am I right
> when I conclude that setting up a console resolution with Grub2 is impossible?
> (why do we have to use Grub2 anyway? Can I safely get rid of it?)

I am sorry. I mislead you. My mind was busy with a console-setup
problem that I was having (trying to make my karmic and lucid text
bootups behave like debian sid...) and I mispoke/miswrote.

You can use the same pf2 font, that you created with grub-mkfont,
after the grub menu stage if you edit /etc/grub.d/00_header and add a
line with "set gfxpayload=keep" immediately after the "set
gfxmode={GRUB_GFXMODE}" line.