Basically I was wondering if anyone has: a) any tips on how to do this b) successfully built a live-cd with fbsplash support and c) what the initrd.splash file in splashutils-gentoo is for? I assume they are all related but i can't find any documentation. Any pointers to resources or advice would be much appreciated.Initrds aren't of much use for fbsplash as their contents aren't directly
accessible (ie. mounted) at the time fbcon is initialized.
It's theoretically possible to store the theme data in a classical initrd
and still make use of it, though. You would have to create a wrapper
/sbin/splash_helper script/program that would mount initrd.image, copy
the theme data to the rootfs and then call the real splash_helper. I
hasn't been tried so far, but it should work.
Cheers,
Phil