On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 17:22:27 Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > Maybe it'll become clear over time how to arrange the input to > > grub2-mkconfig to achieve a similar result. Meanwhile I've removed the X > > bit from it. > > grub-mkconfig is nice if you have relatively simple requirements. For > anything fancy (like your setup) I prefer to just write it by hand. > > The manual has pretty good documentation on all of the commands and > variables available; it's just a bit difficult to figure out which > ones you need and in what order. > > > Looks like your suggestions "insmod all_video" and "terminal_output > > gfxterm" do the trick. Now all I have to do is (create and?) specify a > > character set that (a) can display all the required characters and (b) > > is big enough to read. Something like the size of the character set in > > legacy grub would do nicely. > > 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 Perhaps I'm getting older or just bored with change, but is there an alternative to grub2 that has the simplicity of grub-legacy, for more complex than your average Ubuntu-like user requirements? I have used grub2 on some Ubuntu and Kubuntu installations which went sideways on non-vanilla set ups. I wasted some hours straightening them up and started thinking nostalgically of grub-legacy which I still run on my gentoo systems. Do I have any other option besides lilo which I left for grub many years ago? -- Regards, Mick
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