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

Ray Strode rstrode at redhat.com
Mon Apr 26 14:24:56 UTC 2010


Hi,

> > Absolutely, the initramfs needs to be copied to the /boot/ or /boot/isolinux
> > directory with the new theme that was created. Not sure how the current
> > livecd-tools does this, but this is true. The LiveCD needs to be able to
> > mount a SquashFS
> > filesystem and with that the kernel and initramfs or initrd are outside of
> > the Squashfiles.
> 
> Okay, so I just extracted the two initrds (the one from the squashfs
> in /boot and the other from the actual usb key in /syslinux) and their
> files out. It looks like the plymouth theme itself is all present in
> both and also set in /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf as default. It's
> however not in /usr/share/plymouth/plymouthd.defaults, but doing a sed
> on that in %post didn't change the behaviour at all.
Must not be getting modesetting?

add plymouth:debug to kernel command line and then look
at /var/log/plymouth-debug.log after boot up.

--Ray



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