dracut, or should booting a LiveCD touch the hard disk?

[Kevin Kofler]

Ray Strode wrote:
> There's a reason why plymouth doesn't identify the volume in the initrd.
> Plymouth is graphical and so would need to ship fonts, font
> renderering libraries, and translations in the initrd to display text.
> That's a non-starter.

Could we prerender the text on initrd creation time using ImageMagick or 
whatever?

        Kevin Kofler