Why does mkinitrd require plymouth?
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Jan 28 18:08:10 UTC 2009
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:03:38PM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
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> Steve Grubb schrieb:
> > why does mkinitrd require plymouth? There are different aims to
> > adjust package dependencies for security or minimal installation
> > reasons. For example:
> As far as I have understood it, plymouth will be put into the initrd
> to allow a
> switch into a graphical mode as early as possible.
AIUI, The primary reason it's there is to provide a user interface
for the 'enter your password' dialog if you have encrypted root.
Dave
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