Re: ubuntu and text boot with grub2

[Chris Jones]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:28:54PM EDT, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2012/04/16 21:58 (GMT-0400) Chris Jones composed:
> 
> >Felix Miata wrote:

> > If you feel that the font is too small, why change the
> > 'resolution'..? Wouldn't it make better sense to stick with your
> > display's native resolution and use a bigger font..?
> 
> Probably for most users, but I'm not most users. I have 30+ multiboot
> machines used for testing devel distros and web sites. I connect them
> mostly to CRTs of various sizes and supported resolutions at various
> viewing distances. So, from one boot to the next there's no predicting
> any correlation between preferred mode and usable or required mode
> that might be pre-configured.

Well.. I certainly wouldn't want to be you.. ;-)

[..]

Not sure this has anything to do with grub/grub2.

Ubuntu is debian "testing" with some ugly cosmetics, so you could try:

| $ dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

If this works, it should let you tweak your console font.

CJ

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