On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:45, Rob Park wrote:The kernel's boot procedure needs an option to disable all normal output (ie, only print anything if it's an error, otherwise be quiet -- much like how rhgb shows no details at
Add the kernel option "quiet" to your kernel entries in grub.conf so only errors and warnings are displayed. Seems to me like this should be the default (at least on Fedora Core).
Wow, that's awesome! I think with that setting turned on and rhgb in place, linux actually displays less cryptic bootup messages than the original Win95 boot sequence with all it's stupid DOS messages before it loaded.
Now if only those few remaining modules that still print to the screen could be silenced. Also, we'd have to make grub stop printing it's stuff to the screen as well. Basically, I'd like to see the boot sequence go straight from grub's slick "which OS should I boot this time?" menu to rhgb, without displaying any cryptic text messages in between.
BTW, for anybody that knows -- how hard would it be to modify rhgb to do the same thing for the shutdown procedure as for booting?
