Re: [patch] more descriptive unknown glyph picture

[Vesa Jääskeläinen]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 23:06 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>
> > I think using system fonts is fine.  Current update-grub has logic to detect
> > them, and enable them when present.  It checks (via grub-probe) that GRUB will
> > be able to read them before doing so.  Additionaly, the grub.cfg it generates
> > will instruct GRUB to fallback sanely to console when fonts aren't readable.
>
> You probably misunderstand.  System fonts are located in BIOS.  I think
> it might also be possible to read them back from a VGA compatible card.

This is what I was pointing to. But there are most likely systems where 
this font information is stored elsewhere. And actually VGA font sizes 
are usually too small for larger displays. (and so is ours)