On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:30:36AM +0100, Rafael Belmonte wrote: > Package: initramfs-tools > Version: 0.93.4 > Severity: wishlist > Plymouth is an application that runs very early in the boot process (even > before the root filesystem is mounted!) that provides a graphical boot > animation while the boot process happens in the background. > Plymouth isn't really designed to be built from source by end users. For it to > work correctly, it needs integration with the distribution. Because it starts > so early, it needs to be packed into the distribution's initial ram disk, and > the distribution needs to poke plymouth to tell it how boot is progressing. > This could be the cause of Bug #565188. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565188 Plymouth does not *need* to be in the initramfs at all, that's a design choice. But *if* it is included in the initramfs, then several other components need to be started before it in order to get the desired results (namely, the udev and framebuffer scripts). But the plymouth package in Debian doesn't install a script to start plymouth /at all/ in the initramfs. That's not a bug in initramfs-tools. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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