Re: [vga16fb] `dbootstrap' starts b&w until vt change.

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@msu.edu>]

[Sorry about the long delay in replying.]

karlheg@bittersweet.inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:

>  I fixed it by having `busybox' (which acts as `init' via a hard link)
>  do a vt switch as you suggest, when it finds out whether it's running
>  on a machine with a standard Linux console or a serial console.  If
>  it's not a serial console, it does the vt switch.
> 
>  Where would be the best place in our standard boot sequence to do the
>  similar?  Should there be an rcS.d script, or should `init' be
>  patched?  I tend to think that an rcS.d script would be simplest and
>  best, because `init' can be restarted without rebooting the machine.

I see no reason to not simply make this a rcS.d script.

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