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Re: Running Console-setup Earlier



On Tue,19.May.09, 20:09:18, David Baron wrote:
> The new console-setup from Sid providing uniform console properties to Xorg 
> and elsewhere places init scripts:
> 
> ~$ locate console | grep rcS
> /etc/rcS.d/S48console-screen.sh
> /etc/rcS.d/S49console-setup
> 
> These get run fairly late on the bootup sequence. This is OK but can yield a 
> funny screen repaint mid-boot if I choose anything but the good old vga font.
> 
> The realtime patch 2.6.29 kernel, for some reason, has the whole screen 
> kerblooey on bootup until ... that console-setup repaint sets things right. So 
> I might want to run it sooner, i.e. place a symlink in /etc/rc0.d/S10console-
> setup or such.
> 
> Is this correct?
> Do I dare (must be some reason these were placed as S48/S49....)?
> Do I need both of them?
> Best/earliest S## prefix(s) to use?

insserv will rearrange all symlinks according to the dependency info in 
the header. Might help, but it will certainly speed-up your boot, 
especially if you use CONCURENCY=shell. See README.Debian for more info.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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