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Mandriva: Updated bootsplash package brings back the fbmenu command
Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas
When multiple profiles are configured, they can be choosen in the bootloader with the PROFILE keyword, but this needs a dedicated entry or to append manually the profile at each boot. To ease the choice of the profile during the boot time, Mandriva developed a frame buffer menu in GTK to choose the profile.
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Mandriva Linux Advisory MDKA-2006:046
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : bootsplash
Date : October 24, 2006
Affected: 2007.0
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Problem Description:
When multiple profiles are configured, they can be choosen in the
bootloader with the PROFILE keyword, but this needs a dedicated entry
or to append manually the profile at each boot. To ease the choice of
the profile during the boot time, Mandriva developed a frame buffer
menu in GTK to choose the profile.
Unfortunately in 2007, a miscompilation removed this application from
the bootsplash package, thus the only left method to choose a profile
was the bootloader one. This new package of bootsplash brings back the
'fbmenu' command which display the appropriate profile selection menu
during boot.
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References:
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=26353
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Linux 2007.0:
790a13236e31e321e85ed8b1e4b289d6 2007.0/i586/bootsplash-3.1.14-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
0030db663c174307a8223441c4100971 2007.0/SRPMS/bootsplash-3.1.14-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64:
d5d8fc0eb6b01fb1083f6e3327d3230a 2007.0/x86_64/bootsplash-3.1.14-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
0030db663c174307a8223441c4100971 2007.0/SRPMS/bootsplash-3.1.14-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team