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Gill Bates

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Registered: 2022-10-19

Posts: 28

[SOLVED]pre-cautions mkarchiso / clean bootscreen educational purpose

EDIT:

Specific solution for archiso use case

Add this to your bootloader parameters (syslinux, GRUB, rEFInd)

APPEND archisobasedir=%INSTALL_DIR% archisolabel=%ARCHISO_LABEL% quiet loglevel=3 systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log_level=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0

Thanks for reading.

tl;tr

Please don't get triggered, I'm always happy to just get a link to the enlightening wiki.archlinux article that I'm not able to find.

A: How to not print the Starting version 251.6-2-arch and the Arch Linux 6.0.2-arch1-1 (tty1) to the bootscreen?
B: Do you recommend mingetty to achive tty autologin?

BACKGROUND:

I'm preparing an .iso for my students as a starting point to learn Arch.
As a long time Windows user I read and research but it's tough to figure stuff out, please be kind.
The end goal is to let the student's fiddle arround in the systemfiles and get some quick visual results.
My questions might be dumb from your point of view, it's for a good purpose tho.

Currently, I'm able to use

sudo mkarchiso -v -w /tmp/archiso-tmp /home/lin/archlive

with a custom kmap and

quiet splash

kernelparameters, prepared in

/home/lin/archlive/airootfs/

Now my question A: is how to remove the

Starting version 251.6-2-arch

from the bootscreen, since it't the only systemmessage left before the login screen.
Same goes for

Arch Linux 6.0.2-arch1-1 (tty1)

which should be configured in

/etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d

.

You might notice that I'm trying to achieve as little as possible distractions to keep the students focused on the big picture: BIOS/UEFI, Bootloader (GRUB,syslinux), tty, tmux, TUI, GUI.

The next and final step after this will be to Prompt only the password for user
So I read about drop-in files and enable units.
Question B: Is that the effectiv approach to work with syslinks for systemd files in my case or would you rather recommend mingetty?

Thanks for reading, have a great day.

Last edited by Gill Bates (2022-10-25 16:20:34)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED]pre-cautions mkarchiso / clean bootscreen educational purpose

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Silent_boot - contains the relevant information for getting rid of both.