Bug#462835: Debian bug #462835

[Bharath Ramesh]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 22.08.2008, 10:30 -0400 schrieb Bharath Ramesh:
>
>> When I comment out everything related to lvmmod and gfxterm then I get
>> the menu in the old terminal mode without any problems.
>
> In that case we can be sure that grub.cfg can be really be read.
>
> You're output of real grub in your previous mail seems to be right.
> This is very weird maybe it would help if you come to IRC
> irc.freenode.net #grub
> I'm almost always there (fzielcke) and there are others who might help.

using /boot/grub/ascii.pff solves the problem. not sure why I am unable to use
the fonts in /usr

>
> You could try with just the `insmod lvm' but without the gfxterm stuff
> and with /usr/share/grub/ascii.pff copied to /boot/grub/ascii.pff
> (postinst has done this maybe already)
> and then change grub.cfg like this so the /boot/grub font gets loaded:
>
> #insmod lvm
> #set root=(lvm-usr)
> #search --fs-uuid --set e6f3a8c2-1d6d-46cc-b2ed-6ba778b9205c
> set root (hd0,3)
> search --fs-uuid --set b2bbccd8-f533-4198-96d2-b497f990c20b
> if font /grub/ascii.pff ; then
>  set gfxmode=640x480
>  insmod gfxterm
>  insmod vbe
>  terminal gfxterm
> fi
>
>