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.org on 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