Re: cutting down on boot messages

From: Kurt Wall (kwall_at_kurtwerks.com)
Date: 07/25/03

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    Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:43:51 -0400
    To: Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
    
    

    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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