Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] gensplash
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 12:15:48
Message-Id: 1126181656.3560.1.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] gensplash by Jonathan Huot
1 On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 09:45 +0200, Jonathan Huot wrote:
2 > 2005/9/7, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>:
3 > > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 14:39 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
4 > > > Has anyone got gensplash working with a LiveCD? I must be looking at
5 > > > this to hard. If I include the splashutils in my stage1 it errors out.
6 > > > How the heck do I get this in the mix before the kernel finishes
7 > > > compiling?
8 > >
9 > > In livecd-stage2's spec...
10 > >
11 > > livecd/splash_type: gensplash
12 > > livecd/splash_theme: theme-name
13 > > boot/kernel/whatever/packages: splashutils splash-themes
14 > >
15 > > Anything kernel-related *must* go into livecd-stage2...
16 >
17 > Also boot/kernel/whatever/postconf is deprecated, right?
18
19 Correct. If you put something into postconf, catalyst automatically
20 moves it to packages. The reason for postconf was 100% due to gensplash
21 and us still using initrd for 2.6 kernels with genkernel. Once we
22 switched to using initramfs, postconf was no longer necessary.
23
24 --
25 Chris Gianelloni
26 Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager
27 Games - Developer
28 Gentoo Linux

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