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Joseph Koshy wrote:
>>I dont want to use serial console only. I just dont want the 
>>boot message to appear before the login prompt.
> 
> 
> man boot(8)
> 
> ...
>                     -m    mute the console.
> ...
> 

which sets teh consmute sysctl.

I guess we could make the same thing by turning the sysctl into a
boot time tunable but this was done before that was possible..