Disable kernel boot output?

Blender3D · 10-30-2010, 01:53 PM

I've set up my system, but I really would like it to boot quietly and show only a simple welcome message (I don't have X, and am not planning on compiling it). Is this possible? All of the solutions I've seen require X and a boot splash screen...

Thanks!

paulsm4 · 10-30-2010, 02:21 PM

Sounds like "fbsplash" (nee "GenSplash") might be a good fit:

Quote:

fbsplash follows a design policy of being simple, lightweight and fast. To reduce bloat, it uses only a few most important libraries and does not require X11.

http://fbsplash.berlios.de/

http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=155257

PS:
Alternatively, your distro might support a "quiet" mode in your Grub configuration file:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636514

Andrew Benton · 10-30-2010, 06:21 PM

Have you tried adding the option quiet to the options grub passes to the kernel?

Code:

menuentry "Linux From Scratch" {
  linux /bzImage-x86_64 root=/dev/sda2 quiet
}

Or do you mean that you don't want the bootscripts printing anything to the screen?