Thanks, I understand now. I didn't really understand it before, it makes sense. :)
On Saturday September 02 2006 4:34 pm, Paul Sladen wrote: > Remember to quote and trim! > > Yes, we know Red Hat did/do this. It also saves 60seconds off their > boot process if you disable it (which is longer than a total Ubuntu boot > process)... and the splash wasn't able to start until nearly the end of > the boot---see below. > > In theory it's a great idea, in practice, it turns out to be mad. There > are bigger issues though. 'usplash' starts with in a second or two of > boot; there is not even a root filesystem available. IIRC, X also > currently needs a writable filesystem to start up. > > When 'usplash' starts there's not much of the machine actually available > be able to cope with a full-system; there were was then you' be able to > login anyway. :) -- Usplash artwork should use dark colours to avoid flicker @ 60Hz https://launchpad.net/bugs/58539 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs