pretty boot plymouth security
pgf at laptop.org
pgf at laptop.org
Mon Mar 9 16:47:01 UTC 2009
peter wrote:
> > > > > Q1 What is the status of "pretty boot" or plymouth in rawhide on
> > > > > XO? Is that supposed to work? It did work when booting F10 off SD
> > > > > card a while back.
> > > >
> > > > It does work when booting from SD or USB, and I'm not sure why it
> > > > doesn't work booting from NAND. Does anyone have an idea?
> > >
> > > I believe there needs to be a vga= option in the kernel boot line to
> > > set a mode. Is there one for the kernel boot in either of your SD/USB?
> >
> > are there plans to package OLPC's bootanim for fedora, to allow
> > bundling it instead of plymouth? is plymouth replaceable in fedora?
>
> I don't believe its easy to replace as I think it does some things
> other than just show pretty pictures but it does have a plugin so it
> would be possible to have plymouth display the OLPC bootanim.
i'm sure plymouth can do that. it's frustrating that
bobby's/mitch's recent speedup to bootanim may end up being of no
help to anyone.
paul
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