[Initng] Evaluating initng

[Ismael Luceno]

El Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:08:55 +0100
Christian Metzen <metzench at ccux-linux.de> escribió:

> 
> Hi there,

Hi!

> 
> first lets say that you did a great job with initng, it´ s really fun
> to use and makes the bootprocess again more valuable.


> 
> Right now i´ m evaluating it to see if we switch CCux Linux to initng
> instead of the old sysvinit style. For now everything looks fine, but
Great.

> there is one big thing that we need, a working bootsplash with
> progress bar.
> 

I haven't tried any of them, but I guess whatever you choose you will
need a way to tell it the progress, so a new plugin is needed. It
should be easy, as it's only a subset of the cpout plugin.

> What are the experiences with that? Dosumentation for such things is
> rare i think. Anyone already has this working with a moving
> progressbar. We first wanted to use fbsplash for our upcoming release
> in the next weeks, but splashy or anything else that works with
> initng is fine too.

AFAIK, it's easier to write a plugin to control splashy.

> 
> If i can get this working, i think initng will be the default in the
> next release, it would be nice if someone could share his experiences
> with me.

You may want to look at the splashout plugin:
http://www.initng.org/browser/under_construction/splashout

The code is somewhat old...

> 
> One more thing is that initng blocks the first console, is it
> possible to move it to another one? If not, no problem, users have to
> get used to it! :-)

You can use chvt to change the tty, or the quiet_when_up parameter, and
start a getty on tty1.

-- 
Ismael Luceno
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