[Splashy-devel] Bug#486400: a hack that WORKS !!!

[Eric Doviak]

Yet another typo! I forgot to send this to Debian Bugs!
Sorry for the double email!
- Eric


Luis Mondesi wrote:
> if you pass "splashy" then Splashy won't work. You need to pass
> "splash" as a kernel parameter. Is this a typo on this email or are
> you actually using this keyword?
>
> Back to the drawing board?
>
> Thanks for your help on this though. I'm trying to reproduce this on
> my own system.
>   

Whoops! The typo was in my message. The typo was NOT in my 
"/boot/grub/menu.lst"

I was passing "vga=791 splash" and "vga=791 splash laptop" when I ran 
the tests.

- Eric



here's the relevant section of my "/boot/grub/menu.lst"


title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686
root            (hd0,1)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=791 
splash laptop
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 (single-user mode)
root            (hd0,1)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 root=/dev/hda2 ro single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-1-686

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.21.7-emd
root            (hd0,1)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21.7-emd root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=791 
splash laptop
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.21.7-emd

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.21.7-emd (single-user mode)
root            (hd0,1)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21.7-emd root=/dev/hda2 ro single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.21.7-emd


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