Re: cutting down on boot messages

From: Kurt Wall (kwall@kurtwerks.com)
Date: Fri Jul 25 2003 - 16:43:51 EST


Quoth Jurriaan:
> If I boot my system, there are copious messages.
>

[...]

> Now these messages are often uninteresting - but sometimes they are.
> So just deleting them, or requiring a recompile or reboot is not good
> enough.
> Also, I noted that these messages were almost always grouped together.
>
> Suppose these messages were removed from the normal output, but instead
> stored in a buffer in the kernel.

How about the "quiet" kernel command line parameter, which quiets
down the boot process but still stores the messages in the ring
buffer?

Kurt

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