About Bootsplash
D. D. Brierton
darren at dzr-web.com
Mon Jun 7 16:05:10 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 16:49, Jonathan Rawle wrote:
> FC2 uses the "quiet" kernel parameter to suppress most of the kernel
> messages at boot.
Ah, okay.
> Shutdown/reboot is still in text mode. I guess it would be possible to have
> an equivalent of rhgb that could be used for this.
Well I'm not suggesting that it should be a priority, but having read
the motivations for introducing rhgb it strikes me that exactly the same
reasoning applies to restart/shutdown messages.
> X usually "respawns" so that it starts again after it was killed. But I
> can't see why a wrapper can't be used to start the login on an existing
> rhgb X session if it exists, otherwise start a new one.
I agree, although I still find X slightly mysterious so I'm not sure my
opinion really counts for anything!
Best, Darren
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