Re: Tiny Console Fonts - Almost Fixed
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 09:12:20AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 8/5/2010 8:59 AM, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >I followed these instructions chosing the Terminus font and a character
> >height of 32 and then rebooted. The boot screen and initial scripts
> >were easy to read, actually larger than I need BUT
> >
> >About half way through the boot up the scripts changed back to the tiny
> >fonts. There was a line saying consolechars can only load fonts with a
> >height of 16, try installing setfont. Apt-get search found setfont in
> >kbd-compat but apt-get install reported that the latest version of
> >kbd-compat was already installed.
> >
> >What now?
> >
> >Tom
>
> Don't change the subject line unless you plan to change the topic.
>
> sudo vim /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> Edit:
> kernel /boot/blah-blah-kernel root=/my/device ro quiet splash
>
> Add:
> vga=HEX
>
>
> Size 640x400 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1280x1024 1600x1200
> --------+--------------------------------------------------------------
> 8 bits | 0x300 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x161 0x307 0x31C
> 15 bits | ? 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x162 0x319 0x31D
> 16 bits | ? 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x163 0x31A 0x31E
>
> In otherwords, changing the console resolution should solve your
> problem. You just have to be careful because you could end up with
> squishy text but it will be bigger.
>
I don't understand grub's menu.lst. It begins with several entries
and the beginning of the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST and within this the
start of the default options list. Within this list is
#kopt=root=UUID=xxxx where xxxx is the UUID of the root partition which
was previously known as /dev/sdb1
The following entry is
groot=(hd0,0)
though at some point in the original setup I specified writing the MBR
to /dev/sda and to /dev/sdb. I had used lilo to write a different MBR
to /dev/hda. Subsequently grub failed to boot the system because it
could not find the root partition but lilo could still boot the system
and running update-grub corrected grub's problem.
After a number of additional default entries the end of the default
options list is reached. Following this is the entry
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.30-1-amd64
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30-1-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.30-1-amd64
followed by several more such entries for earlier kernels and then the
END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST. Since the current kernel and two
other recent kernels were not included in the above list I added
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.32-5-amd64
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet splash
vga=0x311
to the end of the file, saved the file, ran update-grub and rebooted.
The scripts still change to the tiny font in middle of the reboot.
Questions: Why are the newer kernels not included in the Automagic
listings? Is there a conflict between root (hd0,0) and root=/dev/sdb1?
Why does the system still switch to tiny fonts during bootup?
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-amd64
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