plymouth-show-message

[Ray Strode]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:38 PM, slh <slhhust at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ray,
>
> I’m using rhel6, and i’m puzzled with how to show message just like
> “Booting” by Plymouth when the system is booting.I tried to add line
> “Plymouth message –text=”booting”” to the rc.sysinit ,but it seemed some
> delays to show the message.Then I did the same thing to the
> 10plymouth-pretrigger.sh uncompressed form initrd.img after the
> “/bin/Plymouth show-splash”,but it didn’t work yet.How should I do?Is there
> anything avoid Plymouth to show message on the splash screen when the system
> is booting?
>
> Waiting for your reply,Thanks.

We don't install fonts, font rendering libraries or translations in
the initrd, so there's no mechanism for showing a message until the
root filesystem is mounted.

--Ray