Re: Fix for strange characters in GRUB 1.91

[Dennis Clarke]

On 11/2/05, Marco Gerards <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dennis Clarke <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > A picture says a 1000 words :
> >
> >     http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/grub/grub_1.91/day_01/img_1280.jpg
> >
> > I was thinking that perhaps simple line drawing with "-" and "+" could
> > be used for now and that would also work nicely on serial consoles and
> > old DEV VT units that some of us still use on headless hardware.  So
> > perhaps a config option in the grub.cfg for charset would be useful.
>
> This was on the pegasos, right?

Yes :

  http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/grub/grub_1.91/day_01/img_1275.jpg

> I have a pegasos myself and this is on my todo list.
>  It is just that not the correct characters are used
> to draw the menu.  I suspect this is a bug in the firmware (IOW: it
> does not use ANSI, which IIRC is in the IEEE 1275 spec.), so we need
> to come up with a workaround.

Everything works fine.  Just looks wrong.

Do you know anything about the possibility for support of a background
graphic image also or is that still a major leap with many
ramifications ?

Dennis