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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:31:51
Message-Id: 42D5B150.9000502@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash by Richard Fish
1 Richard Fish wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi Zac,
4 >
5 > I know this is a couple of weeks old, but I just wanted to thank you for
6 > trying it. The problem turned out to be a kernel bug. In case you are
7 > curious:
8 >
9 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857
10 >
11 >
12
13 Yes, that's interesting. Thanks
14
15 >
16 >>I suggest that you rebuild the kernel with CONFIG_FB_SPLASH=n ;-).
17 >>
18 >>
19 >
20 >
21 > So, for the record, I now have a beautiful splash screen appearing about
22 > 1 second after grub finishes loading my kernel image (which, BTW, is now
23 > some 5MB in size!!). I had to do a lot more work to get reliable
24 > flipping to verbose mode to prompt for my password for my
25 > root-on-loop-AES setup, followed by a flip back to silent mode, but it
26 > really is beautiful to look at.
27 >
28 > I need to write up some howto's in the next week or so, because using an
29 > initramfs works much better than an initrd for encrypted root.
30 >
31 > Thanks again,
32 >
33 > -Richard
34 >
35
36 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 ;-).
37
38 Zac
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