Bug#440238: provide option for mountroot() to not hide the output

[jim at jtan.com (Jim Paris)]

Package: live-initramfs
Severity: wishlist

mountroot() hides all output from the screen by redirecting
stdout/stderr to live.log.

To me this is undesirable, as it both hides error messages during
boot, and causes a long delay where the system appears frozen 
(while the scripts in live-bottom are executed).

Maybe this could use something like bootlogd instead, so the output
can be both seen and logged?  Or at least made configurable, so 
the redirection can be turned off?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.4 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash