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Zac Medico wrote: |
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>Richard Fish wrote: |
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>>Greetings list, |
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>>I have spent most of my weekend trying to get fbsplash running on my |
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>>laptop. I've managed to resolve most of the issues (getting the |
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>>initramfs to be recognized, starting up RAID, LVM, and encryption from |
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>>the initramfs, etc). The problem I have now is that my system hangs in |
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>>the rc-scripts if I give a splash= option on the kernel command line. |
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>>After adding a lot of 'echo' statements to the scripts, and a few |
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>>hundred reboots, I have narrowed it down the following command: |
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>Hi Richard, |
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>I tried but could not reproduce it. |
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Hi Zac, |
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I know this is a couple of weeks old, but I just wanted to thank you for |
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trying it. The problem turned out to be a kernel bug. In case you are |
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curious: |
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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857 |
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>I suggest that you rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=n ;-). |
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So, for the record, I now have a beautiful splash screen appearing about |
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1 second after grub finishes loading my kernel image (which, BTW, is now |
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some 5MB in size!!). I had to do a lot more work to get reliable |
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flipping to verbose mode to prompt for my password for my |
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root-on-loop-AES setup, followed by a flip back to silent mode, but it |
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really is beautiful to look at. |
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I need to write up some howto's in the next week or so, because using an |
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initramfs works much better than an initrd for encrypted root. |
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Thanks again, |
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-Richard |
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