Plymouth text version

[lukefromdc at hushmail.com]

There are other ways to make plymouth start quickly than installing cryptsetup, but that's the easiest way for an end user and least likely to get reverted by some update.

On 11/12/2012 at 1:41 PM, "Len Ovens" <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
>On Mon, November 12, 2012 10:28 am, lukefromdc at hushmail.com 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
>
>
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