[09:45] <czr> does anyone know whether it's possible to disable usplash via d-i/preseed directives? Installing ubuntu/kubuntu 6.10 via preseeds (desktops) and seems that usplash doesn't switch VT (or something weird). end effect is that usplash progress bar is almost full, but display manager isn't seen. without 'splash' in kernel command line it works just fine.
[09:45] <czr> (and yes, I know it's sunday)
[10:29] <cjwatson> there's a slightly cheating way, by preseeding debian-installer/framebuffer=false. That'll have other effects but if your install is entirely automatic then they may not matter all that much.
[10:29] <cjwatson> failing that you can just sed /target/boot/grub/menu.lst from a preseed/late_command
[10:30] <cjwatson> other way is to just not install usplash at all, but that's probably difficult since it's (currently) a dependency of ubuntu-desktop et al
[10:33] <cjwatson> other effects> i.e. d-i won't use a framebuffer for its own display so the display may well be pretty wonky
[10:33] <czr> cjwatson, thanks. fb=false doesn't disable usplash though
[10:33] <czr> the installer runs without fb, but usplash will still be installed :-)
[10:34] <czr> and sed is what I'm trying now :--)
[10:34] <cjwatson> it's installed, but it should take 'splash' out of menu.lst
[10:34] <czr> but I'm wondering whether /target/boot/grub/menu.lst exists at the point where late_command is executed (will find out soon enough)
[10:34] <czr> hmm. I'll try that too then
[10:34] <cjwatson> if ! db_get debian-installer/framebuffer || [ "$RET" = false ] ; then
[10:34] <cjwatson>         # No framebuffer, so disable the splash screen.
[10:34] <cjwatson>         sed -i '/^# defoptions=/ { s/  *splash//g; s/=splash\(  *\|$\)/=/; }' \
[10:34] <cjwatson>                 $ROOT/boot/grub/$menu_file
[10:34] <cjwatson>         need_update_grub=1
[10:34] <cjwatson> fi
[10:34] <cjwatson> late_command> yes
[10:35] <czr> thanks a bunch
[10:35] <cjwatson> no problem
[10:35] <cjwatson> you'd need to do something slightly different from the sed above if you were doing it in late_command
[10:36] <cjwatson> that's expecting update-grub to be run later so it only has to change defoptions
[10:36] <czr> I have sed -i s/splash/nosplash/ /target/boot/grub/menu.lst (yes, I'm cheating ;-)
[10:36] <cjwatson> I guess that's one option
[10:36] <czr> I've used the nosplash before because of the defoptions thing
[10:36] <czr> well, it's installing grub now
[10:36] <czr> must be close to 60 installs now ;-)
[10:37] <czr> oh, night night, thanks a lot again :-)
[10:37] <czr> the sed thing works quite nicely, I'll try the proper way next
[06:09] <czr> cjwatson, noticed that you're back :-). any hints on how to go to implement a partitioning scheme which uses LVM and partitions max 20G of the first disk like that and works with sata, scsi, usb and ide? :-)
[06:09] <czr> using d-i/preseeds