rawhide report: 20080801 changes

[Will Woods]

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 12:02 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 08:54 +0000, Rawhide wrote:
> 
> > plymouth-0.5.0-8.2008.07.31.fc10
> > --------------------------------
> > * Thu Jul 31 18:00:00 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 0.5.0-8.2008.07.31
> > - Update to snapshot to get new plymouth-populate-initrd features
> > - Make removing rhgb use details plugin instead of exiting
> > 
> > * Thu Jul 31 18:00:00 2008 Peter Jones <pjones at redhat.com> - 0.5.0-7
> > - Make it a mkinitrd requires instead of a nash requires (that will
> >   still pull in nash, but we need mkinitrd for newer plymouth-populate-initrd)
> 
> When I did a test upgrade from F9->Rawhide few days ago, the startup
> showed a blue background, small rectangle in middle with a back and
> forth little rectangle inside it.  Was this suppose to have any words in
> it somewhere or anything?

No. That's the text-mode version. That's what you get on machines that
don't support modesetting and don't have a framebuffer console set up.

You can remove 'rhgb' from the command-line to get the standard
scrolly-text startup (note that this may change slightly in the near
future.)

If you want the shiny graphical startup, typically all you need to do is
add something like:
  vga=0x318
to the boot commandline and you'll get the graphical version (at
1024x768) instead. Try 'vga=ask' to get a menu that will let you pick a
mode; once you find one that works for your system you can use that.

With either method, you can hit Escape to see the verbose startup
messages. They're also logged to /var/log/boot.log.

See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/BetterStartup for more info.

-w
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