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Maskawanian

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Registered: 2009-01-06

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Hide "Loading initramfs..."

Hi,

I am attempting to remove as much startup information from display as possible. Other then the initial GRUB information that I don't seem to be able to remove I was wondering if it was possible to hide the message "Loading initramfs...". From searching the internet it does not appear that this is possible, however I thought I would throw this out here.

Thanks.

haxit

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Registered: 2008-03-04

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Re: Hide "Loading initramfs..."

Why don't you just use a splash screen or something. That way there is no text and its pretty.

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Maskawanian

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Registered: 2009-01-06

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Re: Hide "Loading initramfs..."

Why don't you just use a splash screen or something. That way there is no text and its pretty.

I do use a splash screen (splashy) that hides everything except for  "Loading initramfs..." which displays for a second. It doesn't matter really, just a little polish if possible.

Edit: Idea, perhaps there is a way to change the console's colour to black on black, that would effectively hide it. I'll reply if I find anything along this line.

Edit2: It would appear you can't change that without recompiling the kernel which would be dumb to do for something this trivial.

Last edited by Maskawanian (2009-03-12 21:26:32)

klixon

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Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: Hide "Loading initramfs..."

disable the message in 3 easy steps:
1. open (as root) the file /lib/initcpio/init
2. comment out line 6
3. rebuild initramfs (mkinitcpio blabla)

all done

PS: when pacman updates the mkinitcpio package, it will overwrite this file.

EDIT: Instead of commenting out line 6, you can also move it right before this line (just after that big case statement that parses the kernel cmdline:

if [ -n "${disablehooks}" ]; then

This way, if you ever decide to remove "quiet" from the kernel command-line, the message will be printed again...

Last edited by klixon (2009-03-12 22:15:08)

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Maskawanian

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Re: Hide "Loading initramfs..."

Ah thanks! That worked perfectly!

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Re: Hide "Loading initramfs..."

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