No that’s only needed if you are looking to use Terminus in the boot phase. Once the kernel takes over it will use vconsole.conf directly.
Is 32 the largest possible size? I tried the ter-132n and ter-v32n fonts using setfont and they are basically the same. The size for both of these fonts is still a little small on the 4k laptop display but the size is acceptable if there is no way to get the font slightly larger. I don’t even use the console anyways and probably would not do so except for an emergency.
Unfortunately yes, 32 is the largest size. The fonts are located in /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/, you can try out a few others like this from a TTY:
$ setfont <fontname>
There is a font named solar24x32 that is bigger than Terminus but it’s quite unpleasant to look at i think.
Yes I did find that one. It is larger but for some reason it is harder on the eyes.
Yes i think it’s because 32 is the size of the box, so using 24px for characters inside the box makes the distance to other characters too small (4px which translates to 2px on 2xdpi screens).
As far as regenerating the rescue kernel, can’t I just use these steps?
sudo rm /boot/*rescue*
sudo kernel-install add "$(uname -r)" "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/vmlinuz"
sudo dnf install dracut-config-rescue
I got the above steps from the section labeled “Update rescue kernel” in this guide here:
I feel like backing up old rescue kernel is unecessary. Also I think maybe there is an issue with spaces and quotation marks in this line from your post:
/usr/lib/kernel/install.d/51-dracut-rescue.install add $(uname -r) "" /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/vmlinuz
should be
/usr/lib/kernel/install.d/51-dracut-rescue.install add "$(uname -r)" "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/vmlinuz"
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I did these steps:
sudo rm /boot/*rescue*
sudo kernel-install add "$(uname -r)" "/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/vmlinuz"
sudo dnf install dracut-config-rescue
When I rebooted the PC the rescue kernel in Grub now shows Fedora 41(KDE Plasma) so I selected this option in Grub and booted. Oddly, the rescue kernel now boots KDE Plasma instead of displaying the console. If I switch to the console it looks fine, though. uname -r gives 6.11.8 for the kernel. I honestly can’t tell that I’m using a rescue kernel. Is there a way to verify that I am actually using a rescue kernel and that grub is not instead booting the 6.11.8 kernel?
The only place where I still see tiny font is when I reboot. The message “The system will reboot now” or whatever it says still shows in a tiny font.
Is this something that might be fixed by running dracut -f?
This is the result I get when I am within the rescue kernel:
wiking@walhalla:~$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=(hd0,gpt2)/vmlinuz-0-rescue-0ccd2ccd5ed04bc7b6e6e46ffcb6ec6a root=UUID=f7210f1f-8891-42ef-976e-83df21d87ca6 ro rootflags=subvol=root rd.luks.uuid=luks-82adf451-f027-4115-9dd7-46575fb4a044 rhgb quiet
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That clearly shows the rescue kernel was booted.
I think I understand what the first and third lines are doing, but what is the second line doing here?
Can you kindly tell me the difference between Lat15-DejaVu43x24 and Uni3-DejaVu43x24? Which one is preferable?
Probably latin and unicode? The latter will in that case have more characters like é, ē or ê which may not be available in latin.
Is there a way to get the Uni3-DejaVu43x24 font out of the console-setup package into GRUB2? This font is a pretty good size.
Then is there a different 43 point fixed-width font that can be used with grub2? This seems to be the best size for 4k laptop monitor.
It’s an odd size (literally), do you have example screenshots perhaps to show what it looks like?
Yes. I was able to extract the Uni3-DejaVu43x24 font from the console-setup package and set this font as the console font for when I go to the console using Ctrl-F3. As you can see the text is definitely not too large at 43 point size. Remember, the original standard was 25 rows and 80 columns.
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