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authorRay Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>2009-12-16 08:47:17 -0500
committerRay Strode <rstrode@redhat.com>2009-12-16 13:13:45 -0500
commit5da891bbaaae521b9766c34a8e6c63e22161bc75 (patch)
tree1b5ea044fc0ae08bcb1fb8087d69d6495bb31a70
parentfcd88849b3fd2d63eec1dcea3940b0da96cdeeb9 (diff)
[docs] Add reference to splash cmdline in man page
It referenced rhgb, but not splash. While rhgb was there first, most distributions use splash since it's more logical (among other reasons).
-rw-r--r--docs/plymouth.89
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/docs/plymouth.8 b/docs/plymouth.8
index e9dd5d83..b1aef2e7 100644
--- a/docs/plymouth.8
+++ b/docs/plymouth.8
@@ -22,10 +22,11 @@ to the new theme and also performs the necessary regeneration of the initial ram
prior to the mounting of the root filesystem. The options available to this
script are explained in the \fBOPTIONS\fP paragraph.
.PP
-In order for plymouth to be loaded during boot, the option `rhgb' must be provided
-at the kernel command line. Depending on your version of GRUB (1 or 2), this
-involves editing the files menu.lst or grub.cfg in your default grub directory
-or editing a special grub configuration file in /etc, followed by invoking
+In order for plymouth to be loaded during boot, the option `splash'
+(or `rhgb' for backward compatibility with the RHGB boot splash) must be
+provided at the kernel command line. Depending on your version of GRUB
+(1 or 2), this involves editing the files menu.lst or grub.cfg in your default
+grub directory or editing a special grub configuration file in /etc, followed by invoking
something like `update-grub'.
.SH OPTIONS
plymouth-set-default-theme follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long