Bug#654645: 00_header: graphics mode fails due to loadfont check in big disk setup with, /boot partition

[Vassilis Virvilis]

On 16/02/2012 12:19 πμ, Ulrik wrote:
> This is especially an issue on some systems with encrypted root -- lacking graphics mode in grub leads to askpass not displaying properly later.
>
> To Vassilis: You can configure a different font in /etc/default/grub that is accessible, something like this:
>
> GRUB_FONT=/boot/grub/DejaVuSansMono.pf2
>
>
> Ulrik.

Ulrik,

Thanks for the suggestion. I have already copied unicode.pf2 to /boot/grub for that system.

Next bug in line is that grub theme image should be also available in /boot/grub during boot
which is somewhat painful because the themes are shared with the desktop environment...

       Vassilis