Will a graphical boot be installed in a default Squeeze installation?
It would be great to get rid of all Plymouth installation steps (http://wiki.debian.org/plymouth) and have it integrated at Squeeze release, at least for a desktop use.
Gabe
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I don’t believe Debian will ever mandate a graphical boot screen. The Debian project seems to focus on providing stable, well tested options, not mandating any particular way of doing things.
Users that want such a thing can do apt-get install plymouth.
Users who want someone to cherry-pick a selection of software for them are probably better off with one of the ‘curated’ Debian derivatives.
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thomasrutter
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usplash has been removed from Debian, and also looks like the current plan is to remove Plymouth as well, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2010/10/msg00422.html – it’s unfortunate because Plymouth is the only splash that I’ve tried that works with suspend/hibernate on my acer laptop and which also works with a cryptsetup passphrase prompt.
Adam Trickett
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@thomasrutter I believe that Plymouth will not be removed, but usplash has been and splashy isn’t available either, or at least that’s what the current RC1 release notes say. Splashy has worked fine for me on my Lenny systems. When I tried Plymouth last night on my Squeeze box nothing happened – no errors, no warnings just a normal text boot.
http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#obsolete
I tried Plymouth out last night and found it very easy to install and get working, even with an encrypted root and cryptsetup. If you already have KMS, it’s just a case of installing the plymouth package and adding “splash” to your kernel command line in grub. The rest is just configuring it to your liking.