Sorry, I deleted the original message before I realized that I might
have an answer.
The original question was about suppressing verbose messages at boot.
In the file: /etc/defaults/rcS
# Set VERBOSE to "no" if you would like a more quiet bootup.
VERBOSE=yes
Hope this helps.
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