Re: How to change console font in grub2?

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:32:17 -0700
Dean S. Messing wrote:

 <http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2010/03/grub2-poor-design-decisions.html>

has written some superb articles on his blog about Grub2 on Fedora.  The
above URL is some of his observations with which I heartily agree,
having begun to wade into the grub2 "system" myself.

Yea, I've noticed the same problems with grub2, but the recommendation
in that blog to just directly edit the grub config file will get
you in big trouble when you download a kernel update that uses the
"official" update-grub tool and wipes out all your changes.

He misses one of the other annoying "helpful" features where
grub2 persists in disabling the default boot timeout when there
is some problem with booting once. That is horrible in a virtual
machine environment where most of the time you never even see
the console screen, and even though there are 47,621,333 options
to edit in the 67,529 config files, disabling this "feature"
isn't one of the easily editable options.

My recommendation would be to wait for grub3 before changing the
fedora default boot loader :-).

Since Fedora has pretty much forked grub1, maybe its next upgrade of
grub should be grub3; we're at v0.97, so there's only v0.98 and v0.99
left, and they could be skipped.

I used to keep a copy of grub.cfg in "/root" to edit and copy over
after update-grub would run. I then used to edit the scripts in
"/etc/grub.d" but got tired of having to re-edit them after grub2
updates (I run Debian Sid's grub2 and it's updated quite regularly,
including its scripts so my changes were overwritten - I didn't want
to do the same as with grub.cfg because I wanted to use whatever the
latest script changes were). I've given up for the time being and just
customize what little "/etc/default/grub" allows me to control.

If you comment out or delete the "recordfail" stuff in "/etc/grub.d"
or in grub.cfg, it won't behave that way; but, as you point out, it's
unfortunately not possible (but essential) to enable its control in
"/etc/default/grub". Just like it isn't possible to ensure that
certain partitions aren't added (like Windows recovery partitions), to
ensure that the memory test stanzas aren't created, to edit
"/etc/default/grub" to edit the grub menu names, to choose how many
kernels in "/boot" to add the the grub menu (Debian/Ubuntu used to
have a grub1 "howmany" option, for those who like to keep 100s of
kernels, whereby update-grub would create a config that displayed the
latest x kernels in the grub menu), to choose to have more than one
alternative to runlevel 5 (Debian/Ubuntu used to have a grub1
"altoptions" option whereby update-grub would create a config that
displayed runlevel 2 - 5 in Fedora-speak - and the usual "recovery"
stanza but you could add extra altoptions, for example to create three
entries per kernel, one of which would append "text" to the kernel
line {basically "everything but X"}). The last two aren't essential of
course but the first two/three are (and an option to choose which of
the other "/etc/grub.d" scripts to run would be nice although that
would only affect grub.cfg and not the actual menu that's displayed at
boot).
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