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Subject: Re: Silent boot?
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If all you are wanting to do is hide the boot messages at boot time,
the splash boot screen would be an option.
look in /boot/defaults

Yong Yi wrote:
> 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?
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