Bug#463107: grub-pc: cannot use gfxterm as the terminal setting

[Robert Millan]

clone 463107 -1
retitle 463107 support for reading encrypted lvm partitions
severity 463107 wishlist
retitle -1 update-grub: should copy font (and background?) files to /boot/grub/ when /usr is unreadable
thanks

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:19:02AM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote:
> Package: grub-pc
> Version: 1.95+20080128-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> I have a Asus Eeepc onto which I installed Debian testing. I have a seperate /boot partition with the /root and /home 
> partitions on encrypted lvm partitions setup through the installer. I then ungraded to unstable and replaced grub with 
> grub-pc. I would like to use the debian blue swirl background image for grub but update-grub does not put the required 
> entries into my grub.cfg. So in /etc/default/grub I added the line: GRUB_TERMINAL=gfxterm. When I invoke update-grub it 
> issues the message: Invalid terminal "gfxterm"

grub can't access encrypted partitions yet, and update-grub can only handle
font files it can read directly.

Will get to this eventually, although it's not prioritary.

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