On Mon, Nov 23, 1998 at 11:57:29AM +0000, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > For a boot floppy I am interested in a space-saving way of getting a > console font with a few extra characters. > > Presumably the kernel itself contains some initial font. Can this > initial font be redefined - preferably without recompiling the kernel, > if possible? > > Otherwise, is the kernel's initial font universally fixed so that I can > safely add a few characters to it at run time without worring about > incompatible styles? What about the size of the initial font? Is this > guarranteed to be 8x16? > > (Basically I'm asking which of those two approaches would be less of a > maintenance hazzard.)
I think there's no need to mess with the kernel -- simply use the FONT option in syslinux.cfg. From the documentation: > FONT filename > Load a font in .psf format before displaying any output > (except the copyright line, which is output as ldlinux.sys > itself is loaded.) SYSLINUX only loads the font onto the > video card; if the .psf file contains a Unicode table it is > ignored. This only works on EGA and VGA cards; hopefully it > should do nothing on others.
