ah, much is becoming clear, thanks. On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Andy Green wrote: > > or does the boot-time parm "quiet" toss all that output? > > The "setquiet" nash command does that. > > setquiet > Cause any later echos in this script to not be displayed. i wonder if there's any way to override that without ripping apart the initramfs image and changing that script. it's certainly not obvious from the "nash" man page, and one would think that, for debugging purposes, it might be nice to choose to see all the output from the "init" script if you want. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================