Zac Medico wrote: >Richard Fish wrote: > > >>Greetings list, >> >>I have spent most of my weekend trying to get fbsplash running on my >>laptop. I've managed to resolve most of the issues (getting the >>initramfs to be recognized, starting up RAID, LVM, and encryption from >>the initramfs, etc). The problem I have now is that my system hangs in >>the rc-scripts if I give a splash= option on the kernel command line. >>After adding a lot of 'echo' statements to the scripts, and a few >>hundred reboots, I have narrowed it down the following command: >> >> >> >Hi Richard, > >I tried but could not reproduce it. > > >
Hi Zac, I know this is a couple of weeks old, but I just wanted to thank you for trying it. The problem turned out to be a kernel bug. In case you are curious: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857 > >I suggest that you rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=n ;-). > > So, for the record, I now have a beautiful splash screen appearing about 1 second after grub finishes loading my kernel image (which, BTW, is now some 5MB in size!!). I had to do a lot more work to get reliable flipping to verbose mode to prompt for my password for my root-on-loop-AES setup, followed by a flip back to silent mode, but it really is beautiful to look at. I need to write up some howto's in the next week or so, because using an initramfs works much better than an initrd for encrypted root. Thanks again, -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
