On 5/30/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 30 May 2007 03:44:03 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/29/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 5/29/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > On Tue, 29 May 2007 21:52:12 +0200, Lucas C. Villa Real > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > On 5/29/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> /dev/tty2 isn't available, using /dev/console instead > >> > > I think the idea is exactly to redirect console output to somewhere > >> > > else where the user doesn't see them. > >> > Then why wasn't /dev/null used? Something in the script doesn't work > with > >> /dev/tty2, i.e. the bootprocess halts to a stop, with the error message > that > >> the filesystem is read-only. > >> I don't know, that was only a wild guess. Hisham is probably the best > >> person to answer this, as he's the theme author. Hisham? > > This was written in pre-udev days, when either static dev or > > devfs-mounted-before-init was used, so tty2 was available from the get > > go. In udevlandia, that seems not to be the case, so that's why tty2 > > is missing. I used tty2 back then because I wanted the programs' > > output to be available if needed but didn't want them to mess with the > > "aesthetics" of the theme. This theme is more of a > > novelty/proof-of-concept than an actual theme, so if people are having > > trouble with it, I don't mind if it goes away. > > > I think we should keep the theme, but to make it usable I made it use > /dev/null, > so the output can't be reached, but instead the theme is usable.
Cool, thanks. Now, if only we could make the system boot in 40x25... :) -- Hisham _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
