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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:29:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201401251830.13862.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ0EP41bfUmyedgDf0-QqmxbBfFQ3jw7a_bM-5wZh_uOZ27RTg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 17:22:27 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> 
wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote:

> > Maybe it'll become clear over time how to arrange the input to
> > grub2-mkconfig to achieve a similar result. Meanwhile I've removed the X
> > bit from it.
> 
> grub-mkconfig is nice if you have relatively simple requirements. For
> anything fancy (like your setup) I prefer to just write it by hand.
> 
> The manual has pretty good documentation on all of the commands and
> variables available; it's just a bit difficult to figure out which
> ones you need and in what order.
> 
> > Looks like your suggestions "insmod all_video" and "terminal_output
> > gfxterm" do the trick. Now all I have to do is (create and?) specify a
> > character set that (a) can display all the required characters and (b)
> > is big enough to read. Something like the size of the character set in
> > legacy grub would do nicely.
> 
> grub2 is able to load any font you like; you just need to convert it
> to "pf2" format using the grub-mkfont utility. You may need to enable
> the truetype use flag to get that installed.
> 
> By default, it provides a font called "unifont", which is a little
> ugly but has very good unicode coverage. You can load it by adding
> this to your grub.cfg:
> 
> loadfont unicode


Perhaps I'm getting older or just bored with change, but is there an 
alternative to grub2 that has the simplicity of grub-legacy, for more complex 
than your average Ubuntu-like user requirements?  

I have used grub2 on some Ubuntu and Kubuntu installations which went sideways 
on non-vanilla set ups.  I wasted some hours straightening them up and started 
thinking nostalgically of grub-legacy which I still run on my gentoo systems.

Do I have any other option besides lilo which I left for grub many years ago?

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-25 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-25 12:18 [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels Peter Humphrey
2014-01-25 13:07 ` Tanstaafl
2014-01-25 15:08   ` J. Roeleveld
2014-01-25 13:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2014-01-25 17:10   ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-25 15:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Gilbert
2014-01-25 17:08   ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-25 17:22     ` Mike Gilbert
2014-01-25 18:29       ` Mick [this message]
2014-01-25 19:32         ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-01-26 12:37           ` Mick
2014-01-26 15:46             ` James
2014-01-25 21:42         ` [gentoo-user] " Mike Gilbert
2014-01-26 20:03           ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-26 20:08       ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-26 20:13         ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-26 21:28           ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-26 21:39             ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2014-01-26 21:42             ` [gentoo-user] " Peter Humphrey
2014-01-27 16:04               ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-28  9:25                 ` [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels [SOLVED] Peter Humphrey
2014-01-27 16:41               ` [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels Mike Gilbert
2014-01-27  9:38             ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-27 16:00               ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-27 16:07                 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-27 16:19                   ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-27 18:48                     ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-27 21:46                     ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-27  9:40             ` Neil Bothwick
2014-01-27 16:06               ` Peter Humphrey
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2014-01-28 11:38 Thomas Mueller
2014-01-28 12:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-01-28 12:54   ` Peter Humphrey
2014-01-28 13:24     ` Alan McKinnon

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