fbsplash - background appears near the end of the boot proce

henderson63 · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 9

Kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6

Using emergence theme

No error messages in logs or in dmesg

Initially I used initrd statement in grub.conf, but after reading wiki's bit I have complied it into my kernel.

It's not in the middle of the booting process, almost at the very end.

Any suggestions?

Do you need more info from me?
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jsosic · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 11:22 am Post subject:

Splash have two modes: silent, and verbose.

Silent mode only displays picture across the whole screen and posibly progress bar. No text is being displayed. Verbose mode displays background picture and all the boot information in the front. Silent mode falls back into verbose if error occurs. Problem is it detects "INIT: Entering runlevel: #" line as an error, and it triggers verbose mode

There is a way to override this, and that's by disabling fallback to verbose mode on error, but thisway, no error will trigger the verbose mode... so if u like it... just read and edit /etc/conf.d/splash.

henderson63 · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 9

Thankyou for your reply.

fbsplash is doing exactly what I want it to do in terms of verbose or silent.

But it is doing near the end of the boot process.
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lunarg · Posted: Sat Apr 02, 2005 4:14 pm Post subject:

Looks like your initrd doesn't get loaded properly.

Have you followed this guide?
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash
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henderson63 · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 9

Yep I did, actually to try and solve the problem I complied it into my kernel

So I'm not using an initrd statement in my grub.conf

One thought having bootsplash installed will that create any problems?

I unmerged it and ran rc.update del etc.
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lunarg · Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject:

If you no longer wish to use bootsplash, see to the following:

If you're using the initrd, simply leave out that parameter from the boot loader.
If you've compiled it in, you'll need to recompile the kernel to leave it out.
Finally, leave splash out of the runlevels, and that's it. You don't need to remove splash or your themes.

One note though: not using bootsplash, doesn't disable vesafb.
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