Comment # 20 on bug 1232727 from Jiri Slaby

(In reply to Thomas Zimmermann from comment #19)
> Hi
> 
> (In reply to Jiri Slaby from comment #18)
> > (In reply to Thomas Zimmermann from comment #17)
> > > 1) The default tty appers to be incorrectly set to tty1. I set it to tty0 to
> > > get a text prompt on the console, but no graphics.
> > 
> > FWIW tty0 is the "current" tty. I.e. tty0 should be tty1 by default. That
> > is, they should behave the same.
> 
> Where else than tty1 could tty0 refer to?

To any tty[0-9], if something switches (by chvt/ioctl(VT_ACTIVATE)) to it.

> Because with tty0, I get at least
> a text output on the virtual console. With tty1 (the default), plymouth
> falls back to ttyS0.
>
> But with tty1, can can force graphics with plymouth.graphical. That does not
> seem to work with tty0.

There is not much more to say, than that it is broken :).

> Another thing I noticed is that plymouth does not find these tty device
> files. That's why it forces text output, as I mentioned.

I have never used plymouth (no reason for it with ssd to show a wheel for one
second). So how do you configure it?

> Just a guess: Could it be that /dev is not mounted when plymouth starts up?

Hmm. But how can it access and work with ttyS0 and tty1?