Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 17:04:04 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Ben Rosengart <ben@skunk.org> Cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's time... Message-ID: <199908122104.RAA86638@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:44:54 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908121439500.32085-100000@penelope.skunk.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908121439500.32085-100000@penelope.skunk.org>
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> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so great > > about not seeing the system boot up? > > One might want minimal or no boot messages, just to look nice, while > still wanting the dmesg stuff around in case something goes wrong or > they need to configure a kernel. It's certainly chrome, but I'd like > it. Spash screen. That being said, the capability to have what comes out during a verbose boot go somewhere else for later review, while only the "normal" messages are seen on the console would be sorta cool. I think you could do this by converting the printf()'s in the kernel to something like syslog() with explicity verbosity/priority specifications. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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