[Splashy-devel] Bug#410579: splashy breaks resume from disk

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:48:11 -0500
"Pat Suwalski" <pats at xandros.com> wrote:

> Pat Suwalski wrote:
> > On the other hand, I gave the example that I have absolutely no trouble 
> > running 0.1.6 from initrd.
> 
> Here are things I make certain are in /dev on the initrd image:
> 
> mknod -m 660 ram0 b 1 0
> mknod -m 660 console c 5 1
> mknod -m 660 tty0 c 4 0
> mknod -m 660 tty2 c 4 2
> mknod -m 666 mem c 1 1
> mknod -m 666 kmem c 1 2
> mknod -m 666 null c 1 3
> mknod -m 666 port c 1 4
> mknod -m 666 zero c 1 5
> mkdir fb
> mknod -m 660 fb/0 c 29 0
> mknod -m 660 vcs1 c 7 1
> 
> Is the initramfs stuff I should be able to play with on Etch? How to I 
> activate it?

I think the version in etch has the same problems, but unstable has a
newer splashy (which fixes some bugs).

Just set ENABLE_INITRAMFS=1 in /etc/default/splashy and
'update-initramfs -u'. Note that 'initramfs stuff' just means starting
splashy from initramfs, nothing more.

grts Tim