Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash

2005-07-14 Thread Richard Fish
Zac Medico wrote: That sounds nice. Do you use busybox for the root-on-loop-AES setup? What is better about initramfs? Do you have to compile the cpio archive into the kernel or is it just as good when you load it like an initrd? I'm looking forward to the howto ;-). Well, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash

2005-07-13 Thread Richard Fish
Zac Medico wrote: Richard Fish wrote: Greetings list, I have spent most of my weekend trying to get fbsplash running on my laptop. I've managed to resolve most of the issues (getting the initramfs to be recognized, starting up RAID, LVM, and encryption from the initramfs, etc). The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash

2005-07-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:44:52PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote: I need to write up some howto's in the next week or so, because using an initramfs works much better than an initrd for encrypted root. Please, please do! -- The revolution will not be televised. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Hanging out with fbsplash

2005-07-13 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Fish wrote: Hi Zac, I know this is a couple of weeks old, but I just wanted to thank you for trying it. The problem turned out to be a kernel bug. In case you are curious: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4857 Yes, that's interesting. Thanks I suggest that