On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Michael Olbrich
<m.olbrich@pengutronix.de>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 02:28:16PM +0100, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > Am 05.10.2011 09:55, schrieb Michael Olbrich:
> > > I've just released PTXdist 2011.10.0. No big changes. A few new
> packages,
> > > version bumps and bug fixes. I've also added a setup variable for
> > > kernel.org. You can use it to redirect any download from kernel.orgon off
> > > its mirrors.
> >
> > >       host-figlet: new package
> > >       rootfs: add /etc/issue
> > >       initmethod-bbinit: remove banner
> >
> > While migrating from ptxdist 2011.09.0 I ran into this. I liked the
> > previous solution with the hostname printed on boot. The new solution is
> > static and build on the build host. This removes the need for figlet on
> > the target and is probably more portable between different init methods,
>
> It was also broken on many systems. Sometimes when the getty started, the
> last few lines of the init output (= the last lines of the banner) got
> lost.
>
> I ran into this problem a long time ago. I solved it by putting
"sync;sync" at the end of the start_proc in /etc/init.d/banner

Jon