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On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 02:56:48PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:25:00 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > Unfortunately, just like the standard grub.cfg, it's a tiny-looking |
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> > text font on my 1920x1080 monitor that I have to squint at. Next |
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> > step... what do I do to get a functioning GUI? |
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> Set up a theme, you can use one of the supplied examples as a base, with |
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> a larger font. |
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> https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/grub.html#Fonts |
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After more reboots than I want to remember, I'm finally where I want |
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to be. Thanks for everybody's help. I found a thread on Stackexchange |
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https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31672/can-grub-font-size-be-customised |
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which supplied the final piece of the puzzle. That thread was started |
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9 years, 4 months ago. grub1 is now a distant memory, so change all |
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mentions of "grub2" to plain "grub". As per the Stackexchange thread, |
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there's a grub-mkfont command that can translate ttf files to pf2 files |
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readable by grub. ***AND YOU CAN RESIZE THE FONT WHILE YOURE AT IT***. |
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So I ran grub-mkfont, with "-s 64" which means 64 pixels high... |
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grub-mkfont -s 64 -o /boot/grub/fonts/HonkingBigFont.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf |
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My grub.cfg follows. Yours would obviously differ in details. |
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search --set=root --label rootfs |
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sleep 2 |
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set timeout=15 |
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set gfxmode=640x480 |
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set gfxpayload=keep |
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loadfont /boot/grub/fonts/HonkingBigFont.pf2 |
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insmod all_video |
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insmod gfxterm |
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terminal_output gfxterm |
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menuentry 'Linux Experimental' { |
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linux /vmlinuz-experimental root=/dev/sda2 ro noexec=on net.ifnames=0 |
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intel_pstate=disable ipv6.disable=1 |
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} |
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menuentry 'Linux Experimental Recovery' { |
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linux /vmlinuz-experimental root=/dev/sda2 ro |
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} |
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menuentry 'Linux Production' { |
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linux /vmlinuz-production root=/dev/sda2 ro noexec=on net.ifnames=0 i |
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ntel_pstate=disable ipv6.disable=1 |
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} |
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menuentry 'Linux Production Recovery' { |
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linux /vmlinuz-production root=/dev/sda2 ro |
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} |
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The menu output is Y-U-U-U-U-U-GE, which makes it nice and readable on |
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my 1920x1080 monitor. There's a cosmetic problem in that this font |
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doesn't have "line-drawing characters"... |
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1) The box around the menu is composed of garbage characters. |
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2) The bit about using up-arrow and down-arrow keys to select also shows |
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the same garbage characters. |
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grub-mkfont man page says "Convert common font file formats into PF2", |
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so I may look at other character sets that have line-drawing characters. |
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-- |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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