@Baughn, thanks for your PR! By analyzing the history of the files in this pull request, we identified @wkennington, @dezgeg and @fpletz to be potential reviewers.

I'm not sure what the unifont code was about, so I deleted it, and grub appears to work just as well as before. Ideally we'd get input from the guy who added it before merging, however.

The unifont was added by @civodul 8 years before. But this account does not look to active.

I did see that unifont code affecting the configure script (in #22923). I'm guessing that it still works for most text without unifont but you don't see Unicode characters without it.

As a data point, Arch Linux also does the unifont dance: https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/grub

Ok, I'll make sure to test that, and perhaps revert the deletion. Will check back in ~eight hours.

@Baughn any updates?

Right, updates. How do you feel about "I only imagined grub working with NVMe"?

Or rather, it only worked in a legacy bios configuration, which I can't use for other reasons. I've taken a few pokes at it since, but I have no idea what I'm doing, and updating it doesn't seem to offer any benefit.

Ouch. So you were less lucky than the reporter of https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41883

Looking at the git tags, there seems to be a final GRUB 2.02?! (https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/tag/?h=grub-2.02)
Did you give that a try at all?

The installer tests fail due to missing unifont.