About Bootsplash

[D. D. Brierton]

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:15, Jonathan Rawle wrote:

> At present there are still a few issues with it that shouldn't be too hard
> to resolve. My pet hate is the way it starts X on vt8 for the graphical
> boot, then kills it (meaning the text login is shown if your monitor
> changes sync quick enough) then starts a new X session on vt7. This is a
> waste of time!

Hmmm. That sounds odd, but perhaps it's for some good technical reason.
I don't have FC2 installed yet (waiting for FireWire to be reinstated in
the stock kernel), but in FC1 I get a graphical boot but not a graphical
restart or shutdown. Is that normal? I was reading over the thread on
rhl-beta mentioned earlier in this thread, and one of the reasons for
introducing rhgb is to shield ordinary users from potentially confusing
boot messages. Aren't the shutdown/restart messages equally confusing?
Also, there are still all the messages from the kernel before init
starts which I believe are far more cryptic than the ones from init. Is
there no way to shield the ordinary user from those as well?

Best, Darren

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