Boot output imperfection

sir-innuendo · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Italy

I've installed Gentoo with 2.6.16-r9 kernel and after "genkernel all" (but also after manual rebuild) there are some output imperfection at boot time. At the beginning all is ok

Mounting proc at /proc ... [ok]
Mounting sysfs at /sys ... [ok]
etc...

but before login, some old "[ok]" disappears and new "[ok]" go into newline and output become

Mounting proc at /proc ...
Mounting sysfs at /sys ...
.....
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
Starting syslog-ng ...
Setting user font ...
Mounting network filesystem ...
[ok]
Starting vixie-cron ...
[ok]
Starting local ...
[ok]

Kernel 2.6.15 haven't this problem with the same notebook.
The other imperfection is the console cursor that is about 20 lines over current position: I've fixed this moving consolefont from boot to default level (rc-update). It can cause some problems? Any suggestions about "[ok]" messages?

Thanks!

cyblord · Guru Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 424

hmm... does it affect your system performance at all?

or is this just a psychological thing?

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Flik · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 14 Location: France

It does the same to me.

About the cursor thing (which is obviously annoying if you want to edit system files in the console), you can solve this. Just press Alt + right, then Alt + left. I don't know why, but after switching to the 1st, the cursor will be at the right position again.

Maedhros · Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 9:32 am Post subject:

Do you have RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes" in /etc/conf.d/rc? I think I remember that if you do, the runscripts can't be sure that another runscript hasn't printed anything in the meantime, so they don't put the [ ok ] at the end of the line any more as it may not correspond to the right init script.
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sir-innuendo · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Italy

Flik, I rsolved the cursor thing moving consolefont from boot to default level, the problem are imperfecton of output. I think that it isn't normal this and I think it can cause some problems (X or atidrivers).
Maedhros, in /etc/conf.d/rc I've got RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="no" but RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP="yes" don't change anything.
Buff... The problem can be framebuffer? Bad CONFIG_AGP in kernel configuration? My centrino has ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, 15' TFT (SXGA+) 1400x1050.

Flik · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2006 Posts: 14 Location: France

Yes, I also think the problem is related to the Framebuffer.

The glitch happens exactly when the boot is loading the new console font and the keymaps. It's not that big a deal anyway

sir-innuendo · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Italy

I've manually configured kernel from genkernel-version and now all work!!!

Thanks a lot!