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. -- Regards Peter