On patching usplash, boot times and Live CD

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 12:51:56PM +0200, Frank Schoep wrote:
> I'm going to address the last few issues I had left unanswered, it's going to 
> be quite a story again.
> 
> First of all, I patched usplash this morning. The change is exactly what I 
> proposed yesterday: only showing failure messages and their appropriate 
> descriptions. The patch is very small and works for all usplash themes once 
> installed.  Apply it on usplash.c, there's also a contextual 3 diff:
> http://www.ffnn.nl/media/external/ubuntu/usplash/usplash-cut-verbosity.patch
> http://www.ffnn.nl/media/external/ubuntu/usplash/usplash.c-c3.diff
> 
> I've compiled a binary which can be dropped into /sbin [1]:
> http://www.ffnn.nl/media/external/ubuntu/usplash/usplash
> 
> After copying it there, chmod 755 it and run: "sudo dpkg-reconfigure 
> linux-image-$(uname -r)". After that, your usplash will only show error 
> messages and definitely boot faster.

We'll likely experiment with this sort of thing once we have a useful means
of logging the boot process (e.g., bootlogd).

-- 
 - mdz