On Mon, November 12, 2012 10:28 am, [email protected] wrote: > The long blank screen is because of plymouth not loading when the > initramfs loads. This was an intentional decision by Ubuntu to avoid > slowing down the boot process by including the necessary video modules, a > font , etc in the initramfs. This is for actual installs, not for the > installer itself, which loads plymouth early. The simplest way to > duplicate this in an installed system is to install cryptsetup. This > forces "framebuffer=y" on the initramfs and forces the necessary changes > to run plymouth as soon as the kernel switches video modes. All that is to > pretty up the password entry interface for users of encrypted systems, > like all of mine.
Interesting. I was not aware plymouth started so late on installs. I was under the assumption it still started in initramfs. > > In short, there are two cases where plymouth actually works right: live > installers and machines with cryptsetup installed, with or without any > encrypted partitions. I don't know if we want to install cryptsetup by default just to get plymouth to work. -settings may be able to set this up though... or maybe -look should do that? > > I remember reading that Ubuntu had planned to get default installs > beginning with 12.04 to boot without using an initramfs at all, but people > stopped talking about that and I do not know how or if that ever panned > out, given all my installs are encrypted and thus this would not be > tested. They are still there. Someone has probably found out why they were put there in the first place :) -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
