[Fedora-livecd-list] Getting a graphical Plymouth screen for a Spin

[Jerry Vonau]

On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 19:49 +0200, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm scratching my head about this and have thrown already a good chunk
> of time into working on this, so I figured it might be reasonable to
> ask here, in case somebody had any ideas. We're working on getting a
> modified splash screen as before for Sugar on a Stick in time for the
> release (which is coming close, so I'm trying to get the done as soon
> as possible).
> 
> The required package with the images and the plymouth file has been
> packaged long ago [1] and we're replacing the original theme in the
> kickstart file by now [2]. However, on a machine that boots both on
> F13 Beta and RHEL 6 Beta using the graphical boot screen, SoaS comes
> only up with the blue bar at the bottom - the %post part of the RPM
> file fails according to the logs, though [3].
> 
> Ray Strode suggested that this might be caused by the fact that the
> plymouth theme gets installed past the kernel in the build process,
> and that if this was the case, it'd be required to rebuild the initrd
> in %post. Turns out that sugar-logos actually gets installed past the
> kernel. But even after calling dracut in the kickstart's %post part,
> nothing changes.
> 
> So. Does anybody have an idea how we can get the sugar-logos package
> installed *before* the kernel one? Or how we can get a working rebuild
> of the initrd into the spin? Any help to get this done in time would
> be really appreciated!
> 
plymouth has Requires: system-logos, perhaps you could provide
system-logos in your rpm, that should get it installed it before
plymouth, which is installed before the kernel.

Jerry