Questions about console-setup

[Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>]

[I am not subscribed to debian-kernel]

Hi! I have some questions related to console-setup.


MAIN QUESTION

Dracut is one of the packages capable of generating initrd.  About two 
months ago a new module for i18n based on console-setup was added to it.

At the moment I am trying to find a way to rely entirely on the 
configuration script in initrd rather than on scripts in /etc/init.d.  
As far as I know the way of Ubuntu is to completely disable the normal 
boot scripts.  I don't like this approach because sometimes things can 
go wrong in the restricted environment of initrd.

This is what I want:

First, the script in initrd runs, configures whathever it can and 
prepares a report about what was possible and what wasn't.

Then, the normal boot scripts of console-setup run and configure only 
things that could not be configured by the initrd script.

Therefore, I need a method that will permit me to send information from 
an initrd script to a normal boot script.  It doesn't matter what kind 
of information this is -- a small file or a value of environment variable.

Is there such a method?


OPTIONAL QUESTION 1

Is there a way to know the filename of the initrd used to boot the 
system?  I might want to test if the date of this file is older than the 
date of the configuration files of console-setup (in which case the boot 
scripts of console-setup have to reconfigure the console).


OPTIONAL QUESTION 2

Is vesafb the only supported framebuffer module?  Is there a possibility 
for console-setup to specify kernel boot parameters about the desired 
video mode?  Or, alternatively, is there a way to use the command fbset
in order to change the video mode?

Thanks,
Anton Zinoviev