Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 14:01:05 -0800 From: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com> To: Yong Yi <ysyi@analog.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Silent boot? Message-ID: <200310312201.h9VM15uK018244@quarter.csl.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Yong Yi <ysyi@analog.org> of "Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:38:21 PST." <20031031133821.A30890@analog.org>
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> Anyone know whether it'd be possible to cleanly disable printing the > kernel boot messages (the bold white text)? Meaning, short of > commenting out the code that prints this, is there any way? If you dont mind **NOT** having a console **AT ALL** you can comment out the system console device (see below) in the kernel config and rebuild/install a new kernel. >From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC : ... device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100 ... Advantage : no kernel message on console (in fact, no console! Doh!) Disadvantage : makes single user mode difficult at best :P - Mike
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