does the music even work for people? never has for me... On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 8:30 PM, genfool <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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~ >> >> >> >> >> > > > >
