I am using CSM boot because the driver for my laptop does not work in UEFI boot. The bootloader is GRUB2, I think. When the laptop starts “Welcome to Grub” text is very large (which is fine), but after that, the purple grub list and boot status text (a bunch of “OK”, etc) are too small to read. I s…

You could start investigating your trouble here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Linux_console#Fonts …and here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Linux_console_(tty) Plus: r/archlinux - Question: How do you get smooth TTY text on 4K+ resolution?... Bis jetzt 88 Votes und 7 Kom…

I tried two things in your links but none of them worked. Is it correct add that font thing to CMDLINE like the following? [image]

The following thing worked, but only for the boot messages. Grub list font is still small. [image]

I found a GUI app in the repository, and it allowed me to customise the font. [image]

Just a word of caution regarding the use of grub-customizer. Since it does rather extensive modifications of the grub’s boot files and folders, in case you, at some point, decide to uninstall the application, you should keep in mind to take the steps necessary for restoring your Grub’s environment. …

[image] pebcak: Just a word of caution regarding the use of grub-customizer. Since it does rather extensive modifications of the grub’s boot files and folders, in case you, at some point, decide to uninstall the application, you should keep in mind to take the steps necessary for restoring your…

Well, in that case, since it seems that developers at EOS have set some theme (because it looks purple and pink) to default grub anyway, why not customise it to use a bigger font by default? I mean, there is not much text to display, so even if it used twice as big font, I think it will fit on any …

This would only apply to the grub-screen. It has no bearance on any kernel-embedded tty-fonts and -sizes … Apart from that, not everybody is using hi-res screens.

The needs of users vary very much, so it is not possible to make grub looks suitable for everyone. To configure grub visually, see e.g. this article: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB/Tips_and_tricks#Background_image_and_bitmap_fonts

[image] yourgod: I searched the web and added video=1280x720 this is also not recommended in any way… use: # The resolution used on graphical terminal # note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE # you can see them in real GRUB with the command `videoinfo' …

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Making boot status text bigger

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manuel April 17, 2023, 1:46pm 8

[FAQ] Why you should NOT use grub-customizer Newbie

First of all the name is misleading it is not a customizer for the grub setup, it is instead a customized grub! You do not change grub settings every day, and in 99,999% of cases you change something and never touch it again till something go south with it. And when this happens you have long time forgot about installing grub-customizer and used it to change … boot menu size or something… And if you start using Grub-Customizer you can not really use grub itself anymore in the same way… So …

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