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 1Dsrdn-00043W-77 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:31:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6E0UxZ5018530; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:30:59 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6E0RQJo017188 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:27:27 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i3so309284wra for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:27:26 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=H7G6kf58ROgatnVyrh2Zt8b4UFmJjDYnYa/qQZWL1PxJSA1Ue8qen6E8Jgm8plkyPZDpAGNb1QnFzRUcH35pnAfmTn1cTp1rXzyVQHv1SUhcNjGVoHLTP0Yaf0hLxSrLnyFEkdKodgkcVPSe7x0SblqecIItSD0uGof4YWX6trE= Received: by 10.54.6.73 with SMTP id 73mr502771wrf; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.103? ([24.30.171.44]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 12sm2006584wrl.2005.07.13.17.26.23; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:26:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <42D5B150.9000502@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:26:56 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050624) 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> <42D57D44.10107@asmallpond.org> In-Reply-To: <42D57D44.10107@asmallpond.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b7fc1d14-6644-4b69-80e1-9a381cdaa8b3 X-Archives-Hash: d10d7c84bb97cc7f94be2b62adb4f8ef Richard Fish wrote: > > 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 > > Yes, that's interesting. Thanks > >>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 > That sounds nice. Do you use busybox for the root-on-loop-AES setup? What is better about initramfs? Do you have to compile the cpio archive into the kernel or is it just as good when you load it like an initrd? I'm looking forward to the howto ;-). Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list