Difference between revisions of "Make GRUB menu & boot-up/down fonts bigger"
Make GRUB menu & boot-up/down fonts bigger (view source)
Revision as of 00:03, 12 February 2018
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This how-to is really a two in one, as the first part is about enlarging the font used by the GRUB menu & the early phase of the boot process up until the GPU driver loads. | This how-to is really a two in one, as the first part is about enlarging the font used by the GRUB menu & the early phase of the boot process up until the GPU driver loads. | ||
The second part is about first identifying the GPU module to load, & then using the Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) ability of the Linux kernel to instruct it to load modules extremely early in the boot process. Which is what we will do with the GPU module via the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file. | The second part is about first identifying the GPU module to load, & then using the Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) ability of the Linux kernel to instruct it to load modules extremely early in the boot process. Which is what we will do with the GPU module via the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file. Then finishing off that process by rebuilding the initial ramdisk image. | ||
After that we need to find where the consolefonts directory is & if need be clone the /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts directory to /usr/share/consolefonts. After that we need to choose a font, though I'll endeavor to make that as quick & painless as possible. Then we need to tell the /etc/conf.d/consolefont file what that font is, save & reboot to a new situation where we are able to actually read the text as it goes by. That's the plan. | After that we need to find where the consolefonts directory is & if need be clone the /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts directory to /usr/share/consolefonts. After that we need to choose a font, though I'll endeavor to make that as quick & painless as possible. Then we need to tell the /etc/conf.d/consolefont file what that font is, save & reboot to a new situation where we are able to actually read the text as it goes by. That's the plan. | ||
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=Give GRUB & the boot process up to the GPU module load a larger font= | =Give GRUB & the boot process up to the GPU module load a larger font= | ||