Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 12:22:27 Mike Gilbert wrote:

> grub2 is able to load any font you like; you just need to convert it
> to "pf2" format using the grub-mkfont utility. You may need to enable
> the truetype use flag to get that installed.
>
> By default, it provides a font called "unifont", which is a little
> ugly but has very good unicode coverage. You can load it by adding
> this to your grub.cfg:
>
> loadfont unicode

Yes, that does enable all the line-drawing characters to be displayed 
properly; now all I need to do is make grub use the plain old 80x25 line 
display instead of the frame buffer.

Thanks again Mike.

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Regards
Peter