> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:
>
> > What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so great
> > about not seeing the system boot up?
>
> One might want minimal or no boot messages, just to look nice, while
> still wanting the dmesg stuff around in case something goes wrong or
> they need to configure a kernel. It's certainly chrome, but I'd like
> it.
Spash screen.
That being said, the capability to have what comes out during a verbose boot
go somewhere else for later review, while only the "normal" messages are
seen on the console would be sorta cool.
I think you could do this by converting the printf()'s in the kernel to
something like syslog() with explicity verbosity/priority specifications.
louie
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