How to suppress GRUB boot messages?

mikoro · 2007-12-09 12:59:47

I'd just like to tidy up the text mode boot process a little bit. I added the "quiet" parameter to the kernel line in GRUB and it works nice. But GRUB outputs something like this with every boot:

Booting 'Arch Linux'

... all the grub commands ...

Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.

Is there an easy way to disable that output? And of course get it back visible when boot fails...

edit: changed word "s p i l l s" -> "outputs", for some reason board censored it

Last edited by mikoro (2007-12-09 13:03:39)

delphiki · 2007-12-09 19:21:52

This may sound like a silly question, but, are you sure that you're using GRUB? For some reason your example messages look oddly like those from loading the kernel using lilo.

Cheers

Acid7711 · 2007-12-09 20:49:05

Nah, I too have seen this happen when using the 'quiet'. It never really bugged me though.

mikoro · 2007-12-09 21:54:57

delphiki wrote:

This may sound like a silly question, but, are you sure that you're using GRUB? For some reason your example messages look oddly like those from loading the kernel using lilo.

I double checked, yes I'm using GRUB

It's just that I'm a bit perfectionist, and I really don't need that extra cruft that gets outputted... Searching around the net I could find similar questions by other people, but no solutions. IIRC ubuntu did not print those messages (I might very well be wrong).

fflarex · 2007-12-11 00:41:05

Is there anything wrong with just setting up a bootsplash following the wiki?

crc32 · 2007-12-11 01:25:23

mikoro wrote:

IIRC ubuntu did not print those messages (I might very well be wrong).

You've answered your own question.
Grab the patch from ubuntu and build your own package.

Look for the quiet.diff patch in..
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/m … u4.diff.gz

I had the same itch to scratch and this was how i did it. I don't have the patched grub anymore though.

Last edited by crc32 (2007-12-11 01:30:03)

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How to suppress GRUB boot messages?

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Re: How to suppress GRUB boot messages?

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Re: How to suppress GRUB boot messages?

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Re: How to suppress GRUB boot messages?

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Re: How to suppress GRUB boot messages?

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