Thank you Peter, if others have replied and I have not seen the reply, thanks also.
The replies were surprisingly quiet. No, I am not using Ubuntu, I am using arch linux but I did install the unicode package but I just executed the command shown. I just thought I happened to be missing some libraries or dependencies to make the command work. If some thought the small question off topic, I apologize, to me it seems right on target and I found the response to my last question surprising even to a mention of "that's off topic, bring it to grub2 fonts". I now at work, under the Windows kingdom, freedom resides at home where I have Linux. Best wishes, David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA <http://www.qsl.net/n1ea/> Radio-Officers Group<http://groups.google.com/group/radio-officers?hl=en>-- Join CW email list <http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/cw%20> -- Historic Morse Recordings <http://tiny.cc/n1ea> *Gopher Hole:* gopher://sdf.org/1/users/djringjr/ (native or with Firefox's Overbite extension) or via http to gopher gateway<http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?gopher://sdf.org/1/users/djringjr/> *C**hat* Skype: djringjr MSN: djrin...@msn.com AIM: N1EA icq: 27380609 =30= On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Pete Appleton <grub2-...@catcity.dyndns.org>wrote: > Hi, > > Please excuse the personal reply, which is purely an attempt to help, and > off-list because I think the questions you're asking aren't appropriate for > the development mailing list but are really user questions. I'd like to > apply the following disclaimers and then supply the knowledge I posess: > > 1. I am not affiliated with, or a developer for, GRUB2 in any sense - > just somebody who happens to subscribe to the grub-devel mailing list > 2. I don't use Ubuntu regularly, but do have a couple of machines running > v12.04 that I've used as a testbed > 3. I'm quite drunk at the moment > > That said, this email is really offered in "good faith" because I've read > the Vinux site and respect what you're doing, and would like to help if > possible!! > > The potentially useful information follows: > > 1. /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/**unifont.pcf.gz is owned by the package > "xfonts-unifont". > 2. Installing this package did not allow the command 'grub-mkfont -s24 -o > unicode.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/**unifont.pcf.gz' to succeed; this > still failed with the error you reported. I believe that this is because > the PCF font in xfonts-unicode is a bitmap font (i.e. fixed size), whereas > you need a vector flavour to be able to generate the GRUB version > > You may wish to try the following (I emphasize that I have not done so, > and am purely guessing as to whether it might help): > > 1. sudo apt-get install ttf-unifont > 2. sudo grub-mkfont -s24 -o /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/**unifont/unifont.ttf ;#Works On My Machine > > Theoretically, this will install the TTF version of GNU unifont and > generate a "size 24" GRUB fontfile in the correct location - exactly what > the GRUB size means is not documented, I'm afraid. > > If this is of any help, it would be appreciated if you'd let me know that > it was useful; if not, then I apologise for wasting your time. > > Regards, > > Pete Appleton [who is a professional programmer, FWIW] > > > > > > > > On 06/02/13 15:27, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > >> grub-mkfont -s 24 -o unicode.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/**listinfo/grub-devel<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel> >
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