на ядро наложил патч соответствующий (с ftp://ftp.openbios.org/pub/bootsplash/kernel/)
скачал пакет с утилитами сплеша http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=9807
в ядре опции
Under Device Drivers > Block Devices
<*> RAM disk
(1) Default number of RAM disks
(4096) Default RAM disk size (kbytes) (NEW)[*] Initial RAM filesystem and RAM disk (initramfs/initrd) support
Under Device Drivers > Graphics Support
<*> Support for frame buffer devices[*] VESA VGA graphics support
Under Console display driver support
[*] Video mode selection support
<*> Framebuffer Console support[*] Select compiled-in fonts[*] VGA 8x8 font[*] VGA 8x16 font
Under Logo configuration
[ ] Bootup logo (Disable it)
Under Bootsplash configuration
[*] Bootup splash screen
При загрузке сплеш стартует, прогрессбар бежит (проставил контрольные точки в rc.S rc.M), но загрузка останавливается на экранном сообщении
Loading OSS compatibility modules for ALSA
дальше процесс вообще встаёт, на клавиатуру (кроме как на F2 чтоб перейти в verbose режим) не реагирует, только ресет.
При запуске со сплешем из лога messages видно что не стартует /usr/sbin/gpm.
А концовка syslog открыто говорит БАГ
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e11bc000
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: printing eip:
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: c0228ee1
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: *pde = 0160e067
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: *pte = 00000000
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: SMP
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: Modules linked in: ipt_REDIRECT xt_multiport xt_tcpudp ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_REJECT ipt_owner xt_state xt_limit ipt_LOG iptable_mangle iptable_nat ip_nat ip_conntrack nfnetlink iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables fuse nvidia(P) sg generic i2c_i801 serio_raw parport_pc parport
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: CPU: 0
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c0228ee1>] Tainted: P VLI
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.21 #1)
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: EIP is at splashcopy+0x28/0x95
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: eax: 00000006 ebx: e0b80000 ecx: e11bc000 edx: 00000000
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000019 ebp: 0000000c esp: df049bc4
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: Process setfont (pid: 2769, ti=df048000 task=c14c5070 task.ti=df048000)
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: Stack: e11bc000 e0b80000 c1579000 00000800 00000800 e1048800 c022902a 00000019
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: 00000800 00000800 c140d080 c1579000 000002f4 e0f88000 c0229260 000002f4
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: 00000019 00000400 c140d080 0000000c c1579000 0000000c c0223e52 00000000
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: Call Trace:
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c022902a>] splashfill+0x57/0x6b
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0229260>] splash_clear_margins+0x95/0xbe
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0223e52>] bit_clear_margins+0x14a/0x15e
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c021f0f7>] fbcon_clear_margins+0x4f/0x51
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c022142e>] fbcon_switch+0x45b/0x608
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0260120>] redraw_screen+0x10e/0x1e3
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c025f910>] update_attr+0x8c/0xa0
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c025ffcb>] set_origin+0x8b/0x94
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c02607f2>] vc_resize+0x393/0x39a
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c01569c2>] do_anonymous_page+0xf6/0x167
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0221c11>] fbcon_do_set_font+0x139/0x317
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c011ab94>] do_page_fault+0x42d/0x5ad
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0221fd0>] fbcon_set_font+0x198/0x1de
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0221e38>] fbcon_set_font+0x0/0x1de
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c02642ee>] con_font_set+0x122/0x147
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c025b64c>] vt_ioctl+0x1510/0x1af6
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c014dc54>] get_page_from_freelist+0x6c/0xd5
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0156c4c>] do_no_page+0x219/0x2b1
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c01569c2>] do_anonymous_page+0xf6/0x167
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0255d82>] tty_ioctl+0x177/0x495
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0172c11>] do_ioctl+0x65/0x95
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0172db5>] vfs_ioctl+0x5e/0x1c0
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0172f54>] sys_ioctl+0x3d/0x65
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c0103fc4>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: [<c03b0000>] io_schedule_timeout+0x26/0x2d
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: =======================
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: Code: ff ff ff 55 89 cd 57 56 53 83 ec 08 89 44 24 04 89 e8 83 ed 01 85 c0 89 14 24 8b 7c 24 1c 7e 70 8b 5c 24 04 8b 0c 24 31 f6 eb 1b <8b> 11 89 d8 83 c1 04 89 10 83 c3 04 83 c6 01 8b 11 89 d8 83 c1
Jul 19 17:14:00 desktop kernel: EIP: [<c0228ee1>] splashcopy+0x28/0x95 SS:ESP 0068:df049bc4
Без initrd всё вроде нормально, до логина дохожу без всяких упсов... Может кто в курсе, в чём тут дело? и что собственно в такой ситуации делать