On Monday 01 October 2001 16:52, Calin A. Culianu wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, David Olofson wrote: > > On Friday 28 September 2001 18:47, Dan Peters wrote: > > > Hi, > > > does anybody know of an easy way to suppress all the boot-up > > > messages. It would > > > be nice for my system not to have all these appear on the screen. > > > thanks! > > > > Have a look at kernel config option CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE. Disabling that > > might do what you want. You may want to enable CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE, > > so that you can still get the messages if you connect a terminal to > > the serial port. (I guess disabling CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE should have the > > same effect as not having a VGA card - which would automatically use > > the serial port if CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is set - but I'm not sure.) > > Heh that might work.. although later on there would be no ability > access linux via the traditional keyboard/crt console...
There's still the alternative of having *both* CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE and CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE, and then selecting which one to use via boot options. (That's actually the normal setup, if you compile the serial option in, as I understand it.) //David Olofson --- Programmer, Reologica Instruments AB .- M A I A -------------------------------------------------. | Multimedia Application Integration Architecture | | A Free/Open Source Plugin API for Professional Multimedia | `----------------------------> http://www.linuxdj.com/maia -' .- David Olofson -------------------------------------------. | Audio Hacker - Open Source Advocate - Singer - Songwriter | `-------------------------------------> http://olofson.net -' -- [rtl] --- To unsubscribe: echo "unsubscribe rtl" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR echo "unsubscribe rtl <Your_email>" | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For more information on Real-Time Linux see: http://www.rtlinux.org/
