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From: Gregory Shearman <zekeyg@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] broken splash screen and / or init?
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:32:19
Message-Id: 200812271132.07550.ZekeyG@gmail.com
1 Marc Blumentritt wrote:
2
3 > I have since 2 months a problem with my boot up splash. Splash is
4 > working, but the init messages (like starting daemon foh ... [ok]) are
5 > written an screen "above" (for lack of a better word) my splash. When
6 > the messages reach the bottom of the screen, the splash is moving
7 > upwards with every new line printed. When the messages reach "Starting
8 > XDM" the screen is not switched to the 7th terminal, where X is running.
9 > I have to switch manually by pressing alt-F7.
10
11 The problem is with your linuxrc file in the initrd (you are using genkernel
12 to build your initrd, right?) There's a mistake in the section which parses
13 the kernel command line so that it misses the CONSOLE=tty1 bit... causing it
14 to write all over the splash screen.
15
16 There's already a bug report (#232012) on this filed in july and I've supplied
17 information about how to work around this bug:
18
19 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=232012
20
21 Let's hope the genkernel developers get the time to fix this.
22
23 --
24 Regards,
25
26 Gregory.

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[gentoo-user] Re: broken splash screen and / or init? Marc Blumentritt <marc.blumentritt@×××××.de>