(boot improvement experiments) Re: Boot poster challenge

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sat Nov 20 03:14:53 UTC 2004


Franco Catrin (fcatrin at tuxpan.com) said: 
> > This has interesting effects on the available VTs for use.
> 
> what do you exactly mean?
> 
> mingetty lines are still on inittab, they run fine and X still loads in
> VT7

*dm takes the first available vt. If you run it before other VTs
are initialized, it will take, say, vt2.

However, now that I think about it, since we open all the configured
vts (for unicode initialization) in rc.sysinit, this should work.

Bill




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