Erwan David <er...@rail.eu.org> wrote: > Le 02/11/2014 18:32, Sven Hartge a écrit :
>> Important note on plymouth: It is _not_ (only) for a graphical themed >> boot, contrary to popular belief. Only and only if you decide to >> install one of the plymouth-theme packages this feature will be >> active. >> >> To have a serialized console output it is sufficient to just install >> the plymouth package and nothing else. > Thats NOT what is said in the pacakge description : I know. The package description is lacking crucial information and the web page isn't any better. See http://web.dodds.net/~vorlon/wiki/blog/Plymouth_is_not_a_bootsplash/ (Vorlon is Steve Langasek.) ,---- | Plymouth provides a splash screen, but that's not what plymouth is. What | plymouth is, is a boot-time I/O multiplexer. And why, you ask, would | upstart - or mountall, whose job is just to get the filesystem mounted | at boot - need a boot-time I/O multiplexer? `---- ,---- | Enter plymouth, which provides the framework for serializing requests to | the user while booting. It can provide a graphical boot splash, yes; | ironically, even its own homepage suggests that this is its purpose. But | it can also provide a text-only console interface, which is what you get | automatically when booting without a splash boot argument, or even | handle I/O over a serial console. `---- Grüße, S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/3b48htom5...@mids.svenhartge.de
