At Wed, 07 Jun 2006 16:10:56 +0000, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > > Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > At Tue, 06 Jun 2006 22:41:17 +0000, > > Mario Emmenlauer wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I want grub to become completely silent. Namely I want the > >> message 'Press <ESC> to show menu' and the message stating > >> the loaded kernel and initrd to disappear. > >> > >> I need that for hundreds of distributed systems where users > >> shouldn't be able to gather information about running services > >> (including kernel version and bootloader) for security reasons. > >> However, showing a boot-splash without any text would be fine. > > > > Security through obscurity doesn't work. > > > Surprise surprise, I knew that ;-) > However I doubt that has anything to do with this case. > > But back to topic, there are several cases where you don't > want any output on the console, be it simply if there is > no graphics card. AFAIK thats the intent of the silent- > function in the first place.(?)
If you don't have a graphics cards, the BIOS will just ignore commands to display stuff on the screen. I still fail to see any case how this is useful. > If I'd provide a patch that would make all *_printf()'s > and *_putchar()'s bind to a numeric verbosity-level, would > you be willing to include it in grub? For GRUB Legacy (i.e. 0.9x), no. Only bugfixes will go there. For GRUB 2 (where all development happens, as is described on the homepage), I'm still not sure whether it's useful for anything. I don't know what the other developers think however. Discussion about the development of GRUB 2 takes place on another list (grub-devel), so I suggest that you subscribe there and ask your question, because not all GRUB 2 developers are subscribed to bug-grub. Jeroen Dekkers _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
