F17, Apple, EFI boot, livecd-tools

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 00:22 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Feb 29, 2012, at 12:09 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 23:30 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >> On Feb 28, 2012, at 11:21 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> I suppose it might be interesting to see if grub2-efi works any
> >>> better...
> >> 
> >> It's been a year since I've tested it so it needs to be retested. But I do know that doesn't fix bug 765954, so the machine is, for me, functionally useless as a laptop with just a text console.
> >> 
> >>>> 5.
> >>>> At reboot/poweroff time, there's a LOT of extra "garbage" information being produced on-screen compared to F16. It goes by quick enough and isn't logged, so I'm not sure if it's important. But I do get a reboot, albeit with about a 1 minute delay over F16.
> >>> 
> >>> I suspect 'yum install plymouth' may help with that.
> >> 
> >> With rhgb and quiet disabled on F16 and F17, so plymouth is a non-factor.
> > 
> > that doesn't actually disable plymouth, it's still involved.
> 
> ok i don't get the fedora logo splash at shutdown in any event.

yup, but IIRC ray's told me that plymouth is actually still involved in
rendering the 'text' output you get if you take out rhgb from the
parameters. I think there is a parameter you can pass to entirely
disable plymouth, but I forget what it is.
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