Thread: Announce: Recovery Console Mode in Extras-Devel
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Mentalist Traceur is offline Mentalist Traceur
2011-11-23 , 07:15
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#96
Originally Posted by vi_ View Post
I have put modprobe fbcon after the first function to be called, 'init_system'.

This calls it even earlier for even more rolling text at boot up. I have not got the balls to try it before 'init_system' as if I ballsax my system I could not face re-flashing this beast again.
If you look at my code when I first showed how to add fbcon and a press-key-to-get-shell prompt on page two or three of this thread, you can see it's almost at the very beginning of init_system() for me, I have it right after
Code:
mount -t proc none /proc
mount -t sysfs none /sys
mount -t tmpfs none -o size=512K /tmp

mkdir /tmp/dev
Not much earlier to go than that. However, if you think none of those directories/filesystems are needed for busybox-power to run a shell properly from framebuffer console, then I'm willing to risk making it the VERY FIRST THING (TM) executed in the script, and see what happens.

Originally Posted by vi
Another interesting effect is the display of the green R&D mode text. If you look in the link you can call the display text without actually starting R&D mode. KInda cool if you want it but not rolling fbcon text.
Oh, I thought the tech savvy people who would care already knew this, since I always think of myself a newb in these matters. Otherwise I would've reported that months ago.
Last edited by Mentalist Traceur; 2011-11-23 at 07:16. Reason: Typo: "pare" = page
 

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