Re: Mount order after systemd update

[Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>]

Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 02/11/2014 18:32, Sven Hartge a écrit :

>> Important note on plymouth: It is _not_ (only) for a graphical themed
>> boot, contrary to popular belief. Only and only if you decide to
>> install one of the plymouth-theme packages this feature will be
>> active.
>>
>> To have a serialized console output it is sufficient to just install
>> the plymouth package and nothing else.

> Thats NOT what is said in the pacakge description :

I know. The package description is lacking crucial information and the
web page isn't any better.

See http://web.dodds.net/~vorlon/wiki/blog/Plymouth_is_not_a_bootsplash/
(Vorlon is Steve Langasek.)

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| Plymouth provides a splash screen, but that's not what plymouth is. What
| plymouth is, is a boot-time I/O multiplexer. And why, you ask, would
| upstart - or mountall, whose job is just to get the filesystem mounted
| at boot - need a boot-time I/O multiplexer?
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| Enter plymouth, which provides the framework for serializing requests to
| the user while booting. It can provide a graphical boot splash, yes;
| ironically, even its own homepage suggests that this is its purpose. But
| it can also provide a text-only console interface, which is what you get
| automatically when booting without a splash boot argument, or even
| handle I/O over a serial console.
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Grüße,
S°

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