[Splashy-devel] /proc/cmdline

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:46:29 -0400
Pat Suwalski <pats at xandros.com> wrote:

> Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> > Maybe they already have that. But you're right I don't think a
> > distribution will add a vga=xxx line for you, so they will have to edit
> > lilo.conf or menu.list some time anyway.
> 
> Our distribution ships with Splashy out of the box and set up with the 
> "vga=" line right away.

I guess you can also add 'splash' there too then...

> But I hope you're not depending on "vga=" to be in /proc/cmdline 
> anywhere. We've already been through this discussion months ago, not all 
> bootloaders append that variable.

As a matter of fact we still were until recently. I just ripped that out 
of the initramfs script yesterday.

grts Tim