Re: grub messages loading ....

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Wed 30 Jan 2013 at 13:07:01 +0000, mike indow wrote:

> can someone tell me how to make the grub message silent

You will get lots of "someones" giving sound advice with a search on
"remove welcome to grub".

> I get welcome to grub .. loading grub then you see the grub menu
> Ive set the default time to 0 and updated grub and did initramsfs -u but still the grub message i.e welcome to grub loading grub then the grub menu shows 
> for a split second 
> 
> I want make the grub never display not even for a second !! and remove the loading message as well welcome to grub 
> 
> so basically completely silent so I want a black screen until login 
> 
> any help would be appreciated

Fancy altering the source code and recompiling? From

   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2010-02/msg00160.html

there is

  I don't see why you would want to remove this message. It's quite
  useful as it shows progress in the early initialization stages of grub
  and should grub crash before getting to the menu you would know it was
  started at least. It's not possible to configure in a configuration
  file because it is not loaded at this point yet.

  Still the message is only in one place in the source and if you remove
  the printf it is not shown.

  It is usually not visible in graphics mode because it is cleared when
  grub switches to graphics and it does not stay long enough to be
  noticed.

  To sum up if you installed a version of grub with this printf removed
  you would not see the message. The default grub build would always
  show it.

  HTH

  Michal