I realized yesterday, while talking with someone on IRC, that it is not widely known how to change the appearance of the Debian boot to enable color coding of boot messages and reduce the amount of messages printed on the screen. Here is a short summary for those interested.
First of all, change VERBOSE=yes to VERBOSE=no in /etc/default/rcS. This get rid of some messages from the boot scripts. Next, add 'quiet' as a kernel option in /boot/grub/menu.cfg. This tell the kernel and initramfs to be more quiet on the console. Last, install the usplash package. This enable color coding of the boot messages. You do not have to enable the splash support to get the color coding. If you do want to enable the splash support, I recommend installing some other splash image, for example the one in debian-edu-artwork-usplash. To enable the splash support add 'splash' as a kernel option in /boot/grub/menu.cfg. Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
