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From: Marc Blumentritt <marc.blumentritt@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: broken splash screen and / or init?
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:09:53
Message-Id: gj5uhb$75i$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] broken splash screen and / or init? by Gregory Shearman
1 Gregory Shearman schrieb:
2 > Marc Blumentritt wrote:
3 >
4 >> I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is
5 >> working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are
6 >> written an screen "above" (for lack of a better word) my splash. When
7 >> the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is moving
8 >> upwards with every new line printed. When the messages reach "Starting
9 >> XDM" the screen is not switched to the 7th terminal, where X is running.
10 >> I have to switch manually by pressing alt-F7.
11 >
12 > The problem is with your linuxrc file in the initrd (you are using genkernel
13 > to build your initrd, right?) There's a mistake in the section which parses
14 > the kernel command line so that it misses the CONSOLE=tty1 bit... causing it
15 > to write all over the splash screen.
16 >
17 > There's already a bug report (#232012) on this filed in july and I've supplied
18 > information about how to work around this bug:
19 >
20 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232012
21 >
22 > Let's hope the genkernel developers get the time to fix this.
23 >
24 Well thanks to point this out. Seems like it has been fixed. Now let's
25 wait for the new version to get stable.
26
27 Marc