@Colin Watson: Your change to initramfs seems to do it's job very well - thanks ! But unfortunately usplash breaks it again, so I needed to fix it again here as soon as usplash is going away.
Please have a look at my patch in #69559: http://librarian.launchpad.net/6861279/console-setup-usplash.patch Setting to confirmed. ** Changed in: console-setup (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Fonts do not get set when one boots using usplash https://launchpad.net/bugs/87031 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs