netboot tarball missing grub/fonts/unicode.pf2?

[Steve Langasek]

I'm in the process of updating https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/SecureBoot/PXE-IPv6 and one of the files mentioned there that is useful to publish to your netboot root directory is /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 to provide an experience matching that you get when booting from a local device.

Maybe we should include this font file in the netboot tarball we now provide? (and include a grub.cfg that loads it?)

I checked and it doesn't appear to be part of the signed grub efi image.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

The relevant bits of the grub.cfg there:

if loadfont unicode ; then
  set gfxmode=auto
  set locale_dir=$prefix/locale
  set lang=en_US
fi

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

Where should it go in the tarball?

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

grub loads it from the same directory as grub.cfg.

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

https://code.launchpad.net/~mwhudson/livecd-rootfs/+git/livecd-rootfs/+merge/450399

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

grub on UEFI includes the unicode font in the signed image and does not load external fonts anymore, so this would only affect BIOS boot.