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I would like to reduce the size of the font of GRUB boot loader. Is it possible and so how?

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After some research based on the answers of @fpmurphy and @hesse, also based on a comprehensive thread at ubuntuforums and on Fedora Wiki, I found out how to reduce the font size of GRUB2.

  1. Choose a font, in this example I chose DejaVuSansMono.ttf
  2. Convert the font in a format GRUB understands:
    sudo grub2-mkfont -s 14 -o /boot/grub2/DejaVuSansMono.pf2 /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf
  3. Edit the /etc/default/grub file adding a line:
    GRUB_FONT=/boot/grub2/DejaVuSansMono.pf2
  4. Update GRUB configuration with:
    sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
  5. reboot.

The resolution of GRUB display may also affect the size of the font, more on resolution etc. on the ubuntuforums link above.

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Yes, both the font and the font size can be customised. See the grub-mkfont utility. Bitmap (.pf2) and Truetype (.ttf) fonts are supported.

Just do an Internet search on grub-mkfont and you will quickly come across a number of examples of the necessary steps.

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Nice indeed I found this documentation but somehow I need to update-grub, which command I don't seem to have on Fedora 16 (?). – Benjamin Feb 15 '12 at 12:49
OK, I see elsewhere the equivalent of update-grub is grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg. – Benjamin Feb 15 '12 at 12:51

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