[Splashy-devel] /proc/cmdline (was: Re: Slow from initramfs)

[Luis]

On 8/20/06, Tim Dijkstra <newsuser at famdijkstra.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:54:14 -0400
> Luis <lemsx1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, think about it from this point of view:
> >
> > you have Splashy (package) installed and you want to use vga= (say, to
> > make your console look nicer) and you don't want boot into single user
> > mode to disable Splashy because you ran into some problem and you need
> > to read the console messages. "splash" in the kernel param solves this
> > problem nicely.
>
> Why don't we make it 'nosplash'? That way people that want to disable
> it temporarily can do so, but people that want to use splashy can just
> install the package and be done with it.
>

ah, the thing is that "splash" is used by other packages as well
already (rh's splash, bootsplash, usplash, etc...)

if you want we can implement a debconf question: do you want to enable
splashy at boot? and do you want to enable splashy from initramfs?

 ;-)

Then you will need to ask what bootloader they are using
(grub,quik,lilo). it's not easy.


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