From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 21:00:25 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E1316A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:00:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.r.cullen@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9144943D48 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:00:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.r.cullen@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so151161nzd for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:00:24 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:x-accept-language:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=D3I1i2ZeSaQYGZEAQ1Dt078tguEIMNlJ5J/I25FHiWmcoU1CktV4RnnSIAo4QF/ONpp/qkz6jL70Lb5pEzwGK5FdlR3MZsB7SwcVfWla9YvaflhO8JDSO6Jm5YREcANIttpqCTklReb/Vrlzr+ofdqn/ETYBqPKYo4HY4erRklk= Received: by 10.54.54.60 with SMTP id c60mr1619064wra; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.251? ( [88.96.18.86]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 44sm444420wri.2005.09.27.14.00.22; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:00:23 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4339B2EF.6040709@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:00:31 +0100 From: Mark Cullen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Jeays References: <200509271005.59838.kirk@strauser.com> <4339669E.1020306@daleco.biz> <1127852545.655.18.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> In-Reply-To: <1127852545.655.18.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bye-bye beastie ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 21:00:25 -0000 Mike Jeays wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > >>Kirk Strauser wrote: >> >> >>>On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really >>>>dying to have on there; >>>> >>>> >>> >>>You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. >>> >>>Sincerely, >>>A sincere Christian who doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. >>> >>> >> >>Fortunately I'd finished my drink at the time, but I did wonder >>if he could send out a Protestant version ;-D >> >>KDK >> >>P.S. Of course, if it was worth the "fuss", I could hack that >>myself... >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the > dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or > GDM login screen? When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen > Windows before, their first reaction is how geeky all that text looks as > it rolls by. They are turned off before I even get to the login > screen. Most current Linuxes are 'better' in this respect. > > I realise it may make it harder to debug failed startups... > > Probably not the best solution in the world but you could try... echo "-h" > /boot.config Works for 4.11 atleast :-) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >