Re: Hide boot messages

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 13:45 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> * Paul van der Vlis:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't like that my customers see the boot-messages, warnings and 
> > errors when the system starts.
> >
> > On the other side, I want to use a standard kernel. And shit, this 
> > cannot do something like bootsplash.
> 
> Maybe you could simply use the kernel-source-2.x.y packages with the
> default configuration of the kernel-image packages? It doesn't save you
> from compiling the kernel, but that's as close as you can get to the
> standard distribution kernel.
> 
> > Is there a way to remove the boot-messages from the screen? Maybe a 
> > kernel option to redirect them to /dev/null?

i think you can append the 'quiet' option to the kernel command line.

check out:

<kernel source directory>/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

-matt zagrabelny