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

[Sebastian Dziallas]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> wrote:
> 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

It's getting interesting: http://fpaste.org/SONM/

Apparently, it tries to load the sugar theme first and moves on to
charge and text. I'm not sure why this is, but maybe because of this
line (69)?

# [ply-boot-splash.c] ply_boot_splash_show:can't show splash: No such
file or directory

--Sebastian