From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DsoF0-0004CC-0l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:54:02 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DKoa4W003254; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:50:36 GMT Received: from smtp107.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp107.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.169.227]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DKerit004043 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 20:40:54 GMT Received: (qmail 85756 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2005 20:41:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.50.105?) (richard?j?fish@212.180.33.26 with plain) by smtp107.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 2005 20:41:57 -0000 Message-ID: <42D57D44.10107@asmallpond.org> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:44:52 +0200 From: Richard Fish User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050623) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash References: <42BEBB2A.40601@asmallpond.org> <42BF4F99.6020207@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <42BF4F99.6020207@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0ad9a8e2-72a7-4074-89de-caf3570bb02f X-Archives-Hash: 223619f9c6b88bb4f5616f84dacae78c 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