On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 22:15, John Keller wrote: > > This is not a consequence of any of the mentioned pkgs nor is it a > > cooker issue. > > > > If you do not want verbose output add 'quiet' to your lilo append > > Thanks, but I think you misunderstood me. > > If you take a look at the selections of screens (for example, at > http://www.bfcomputerconsulting.com/mandrake/mandrake_bootsplash.html), > you'll see that there are two types. One displays text, the other doesn't. > > The no-text mode is triggered with a "splash=silent" in the lilo append. > I've always had this, and it's in fact included by default with the install. > This is what I as referring to by "silent" and "verbose". > > Since the bootsplash seems to be doing tricks with framebuffers or something > like it, I figured that there may be a connection with my video -- > especially since it's a laptop, and may be shortchanged in VRAM (I can do > 1024x768x24 bits, but is there enough for two buffers?). > > I'd seen at least one post (lost in a long thread) mentioning that the > silent mode didn't work for him. Perhaps there's a common cause, I don't > know. Hopefully, there's enough time before release to spot the cause and > maybe fix it.
Probably obvious, but have you actually done anything to regenerate your initrd since setting up for a silent bootsplash? If the image isn't actually in the initrd you're never gonna see it... -- adamw
