Question on quieting kernel boot

[Julian Elischer]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Sm=F8rgrav wrote:

> des at des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
> > I don't know what -m does
>=20
> judging from the source code, it causes any attempt to write to or
> read from the console to silently discard all data.
>=20
> note that console !=3D ttyv0, so you'll still get a login prompt.

It's for embedded devices (e.g. Interjet :-)
that have either no consloe or little lcd consoles.



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> Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des at des.no
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