On 10/18/2016 8:51 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
With GRUB2 on Jessie, how do I increase the menu's font _size_ .
A Google search wandered around my problem without addressing it.
I did discover that that GRUB was using a resolution that matched
my monitor's settings.
[When menu comes up go to command mode by typing 'c'. Then enter
'vbeinfo' to see list of supported resolutions. In my case the
active resolution was listed as 1280 x 1024.]
Please note the "MY solution" in the subject line as I did not
follow some advice in this thread. In ways this IS an "XY
Problem" as I never specified some goals and constraints.
SOURCES:
1. this thread
2.
https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Theme-file-format.html#Fonts
3. https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1357
4. http://grub.gibibit.com/New_font_format
5. https://manned.org/grub-mkfont.1
PROCEDURE:
[AS ROOT]
apt-get install ttf-unifont
grub-mkfont -s 32 -o /boot/grub/fonts/unicode.pf2 \
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/unifont/unifont.ttf
COMMENTS:
1. I chose a character height of 32 pixels as on my 1024 line
screen that
gives me a nominal 32 lines of text per screen.
2. I chose to replace the existing unicode.pf2 file as that
gives a single
change point if I later desire a different character
height. I don't
foresee it ever being changed during the life of the
installation. It is
my intention to work it into my preseed.cfg file - must do
more research on how.
