> > As far as I have understood it, plymouth will be put into the initrd > > to allow a > > switch into a graphical mode as early as possible. > > AIUI, The primary reason it's there is to provide a user interface > for the 'enter your password' dialog if you have encrypted root. That was possible in text mode in Fedora 9. In fact, RHGB used to crash on this question and the user then had to enter the passphrase in text mode, the remaining of the boot being text (has RHGB had crashed). ---------- Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) French Fedora Ambassador ---------- "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
