Plymouth Boot Commands?

Blender3D · 08-11-2010, 07:52 PM

Hi,

I've just installed Plymouth on my BLFS distro and I can't figure out how to make it show the splash. I know you have to tell it to show the splash early in the boot process.

Is there a file that I can add the commands to? I might be going at this all wrong...

Thanks!

Elv13 · 08-12-2010, 02:17 PM

you need to add "splash" as a parameter to the kernel. So /boot/grub/menu.lst for grub 0.97 or grub.cfg for grub2

Blender3D · 08-12-2010, 07:23 PM

Well, I got pretty far: Plymouth couldn't make an boot image, so I had to install mkintramfs. That worked, but Plymouth now throws me an error similar to

Code:

mount: unknown filesystem type ext2
(something about loopback)

I am recompiling my Kernel with some more changes to see if that helps.

Elv13 · 08-13-2010, 02:05 AM

Are you sure ext2 is a built-in file system for your kernel and not a module, because initramfs is used to load module, if the image is ext2 and ext2 is not part of the kernel, it just can't read it.

Blender3D · 08-13-2010, 11:58 PM

I can make the boot image via chroot with no errors, but Plymouth shows only a black screen that overlays my TTY login until I start X.

Hmm, I remembered that I put a <*> in the kernel config next to EXT2...

syg00 · 08-14-2010, 12:02 AM

Use <Esc> to see the messages Plymouth hides.