rawhide install report 20080709

[Clyde E. Kunkel]

Will Woods wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> ...kinda. In some of my tests, plymouth is getting installed *after*
> kernel, which means it's not being included in the initrd.
> 
> If you want to be 100% sure:
> 
> 1) make sure plymouth-plugin-spinfinity is installed
>    This is the default plugin, and it pulls in the rest of plymouth.
> 2) recreate your initrd
>    kv=$(uname -r)
>    mv /boot/initrd-$kv.img /boot/initrd-$kv.img.good
>    mkinitrd /boot/initrd-$kv.img $kv
> 3) make sure you're getting a fb device at boot
>    a) add "vga=0x317" (or similar) to the kernel commandline, or
>    b) boot from EFI, or
>    c) boot on a ppc (with some hardware)
> 4) reboot!
><snip> 
> -w
> 

Tried the above and voila!  Interesting and kinda nice.  I have an 
encrypted file system that needs a password and "plymouth" goes away to 
ask for the password and doesn't come back.  Is that expected?  It was 
that way with the old RHGB.

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