hiding kernel boot messages [was Re: Fedora Core + KDE unstable?]

[Garrett LeSage]

Ogden, Aaron A. wrote:

>Message: 14
>From: David Balazic <david.balazic at hermes.si>
>To: "'fedora-list at redhat.com'" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: RE: Fedora Core 1 + KDE unstable?
>Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:53:28 +0100
>Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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>>>First the good... I like the new startup screen, it's very
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>professional
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>>>looking and it hides the scary boot messages from PHBs and newbies.
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>>That is strange, on my FC1 system I saw 2-3 pages of cryptic,
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>newbie-eating,
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>>PHB-scaring messages, before they were hidden by the gfx boot thing.
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>Yes I noticed that too, but at least most of the messages are hidden,
>although they are still available if you want them.  (I do)  For some
>reason my system is showing them all the time now, the screen that hides
>the boot messages does not appear anymore.  I don't remember turning it
>off, or even how I would go about turning it off...
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Adding "quiet" after "rhgb" in your /etc/grub.conf should do the trick.

Garrett