I dunno, I kinda like the boot music on live disk .... have never gone to the trouble of enabling it in a installed system. Most hardware that runs sabayon will play the boot music, is a non issue to me.
If we want to talk boot issues, and I have the splash turned off as wolfden does... not sure what is up with the flickering. Maybe we should take a closer look at grub2, may be connected issues. I have found after using grub2 on gentoo for over a year, it started to disintegrate. I had a quad boot at the time, gentoo 32 bit and sabayon 32bit on sda, same as 64 bit on sdb. I had gentoo on sda and used it for over a year with no issue in grub at all. Then it started to not pick up the kernels as it should, next thing you know, I had something like 6 working kernels in a quad boot, grub menu would show 23 entries for these 6 kernels ... only a few would boot. I worked on this for weeks, more like two months, in the end I dd both drives and re-installed each os individually, first os was fine, then another it was acting up... add all 4 back in and was right back where I started from. I currently have debian installed on sda just for grub2. It handles my os just fine, I currently have 5 os installed, 4 gentoo/sabayon and one debian just for grub.... we want to talk about grub.... I got something I would like to say about it... maybe I move grub back to gentoo and you look at the errors I have, take my issue serious. In the mean time, I will not even consider running gentoo grub. On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 2:45 AM, wolfden <[email protected]> wrote: > There was a discussion in irc that I think was good and should be brought > out here as it brought out some interesting discussion. > > sys-boot/plymouth and sys-kernel/dracut which came about because of our > current Splash screen. I didn't realize there was a problem with it, but > some are having experiences with flickers and sluggishness. It all seems > fine for me especially when comparing it to ubuntu's boot, which is slow and > often just a black screen leaving ya wondering if it's even booting. So I > would like to stay away from that myself. I prefer booting in verbose mode > as I can watch for errors if something is wacky without having to deal with > Splash. > > I don't follow development on plymouth or dracut, but sounds way too > experimental at this point and time. IRC user and dev aidecoe even > confirmed plymouth was buggy and that dracut was his main project. So how > do we improve Splash? > > Boot up music on Sabayon, for me is not a good thing as my puter boots up > so fast that by time the music starts to play, my desktop is already loaded. > Do we really want to keep that feature? It's bold and different, but I > don't think it works well with modern computer speeds. Maybe have the no > music option as default and have the with music as an option on the menu for > those that do enjoy it? On my spins, I have disabled the music option. > > There was discussion of arch linux, but I forgot where that was going as we > are gentoo based. Maybe someone from the discussion can refresh what that > thought was. I think it had to do with how stable and smooth arch linux > runs, so therefore Sabayon should also. Someone will chime in on that one. > > Feel free to pass along your input/experiences, especially with boot up. > > -- > Kelly Schwartz > ~wolfden~ > > > > >
