Hi,

I have Fedora Core 2 instaled on my machine. It's nice that when booting (init 5) there is a picture etc (it starts X and shows the picture and everything) ...

What I was wandering is how do I configure linux to boot in init 3 mode and to avoid all the messages that it gives. I want to hide all the messages so that the user isn't bodered with all the stuff written on the monitor. I guess that I would have to do something in the kernel too, so every idea is very welcome.

I'm also trying to change the stuff from BIOS to a nice picture, but that would be my problem.

Thanks.

hi there

i could not get to what u want to do exactly??

booting into init 3 mode is different from hiding boot messages
to boot in to init 3 mode edit
the /etc/inittab file


make the entry
initdefault from 5 to 3

and what picture are u trying to change form the bios???

regards

I'm sorry I wasn't very clear. My knowledge of English is not great, and even less great of Linux.

I know how to change my inittab etc and to boot in init 3...
What I want to do from my computer is a TV. So from init 3 I start X and then tvtime (fullscreen) and that is OK, but I'm trying to get all messages like (I'm at work and don't know them :-)):

Booting
Fedora Core 2
Uncompresing Linux...

Messages about loading modules and then (OK) or (ERROR) etc...

login:
password:

etc...

What I want is to turn on the computer, some Welcome screen (while loading everithing), then X and tvtime.
I hope I make it clear this time.

And the picture that BIOS would give is like all the computers like DELL, HP etc... You don't get anything that to an ordinary user doesn't even understand.

Thanks again.

hi there

there is one configuration in the

graphics support section--->Logo config.--->bootup logo


in the kernel configuartion

there is one in the 2.4 kernel; but presently i am using 2.6 so i do not know about 2.4

maybe u should give that a try tooo

regards

Sorry for replying this late. (I wasn't home for the weekend :-))

I didn't try what masand suggested, but I don't think it would be everithing I need. I'll still have a lot boot and shutdown messages.

I read about bootsplash so I'll see that.

Maybe I should do something in the kernel sources or else... Anyone familliar with this please give me some idea.

Thanks

hi there

in my above post i had given u an idea that may help u

so look out for that too

regards

Hi,

I've found that there are scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d that writes all this messages, so you can just edit the scripts and get rid of the text (boot and shutdown messages almost all). Also there are rc and rc.sysinit containing some text in /etc/rc.d.

NOTE: Make backup of every file you edit (You cannot boot if you erase something that you should not!!! (I made that mistake ))

I didn't get rid from the first several messages from the kernel I guess.

I could not download bootsplash, but I'll see about that too.

And Masand please tell me where can I set up boot logo you were talking about. (I'm running kernel 2.6.5)

there are several different thing which would print messages
the computers bios on first boot
the boot loader
the kernel
and the startup scripts
in the bios you may have an option to display a logo and avoid the messages, or you may not
the boot loader i dont know about but you could try "man lilo" or "man grub" or whatever it is your using
probaly grub i suppose
now for the rest i'm not certain of the actual command
but in options to pass to the kernel when its loaded you might be able to redirect all the output to /dev/null
which is the end of all things unix

The BIOS is another problem. (I hope maybe to find some source and flesh the BIOS. Maybe I'm just dreaming about this )

The picture in grub is easy to change. (For everyone that wants to do this search Google)

The thing about the boot options is very interesting (and like I said I'm new to linux) so please tell me how (where) to do this (maybe in grub)?

I downloaded KBootSplash that I'll try today when I get home (It's a project on SourceForge).

And I like to thank you guys for sticking with my (for you maybe stupid) problem. But I'm learning a lot about Linux with all this.