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Re: Enabling 'quiet' kernel option for D-I images



Quoting Otavio Salvador (otavio@debian.org):
> Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> 
> > I'd like to propose to add that option by default for i386/amd64 for all 
> > boot methods _except_ for expert mode. That way people can still check 
> > the console for errors and such if the installer fails to boot by booting 
> > in expert mode. This would of course need to be documented; at least in 
> > one of the the syslinux help screens.
> 
> I like the idea. Many people don't like the verbosiness of installer boot.


I tried this in QEMU on my laptop, which is not exactly fast.

The only drawback I see is that the user is left for a while with
nothing happening apparently on the screen which may give a false
impression of the process being "hanged".

Apart from this, I like the idea.


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