Bye-bye beastie ...

[Mark Cullen]

Mike Jeays wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> 
>>Kirk Strauser wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>>Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really
>>>>dying to have on there;
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>
>>>You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one.
>>>
>>>Sincerely,
>>>A sincere Christian who doesn't understand what all the fuss is about.
>>> 
>>>
>>
>>Fortunately I'd finished my drink at the time, but I did wonder
>>if he could send out a Protestant version ;-D
>>
>>KDK
>>
>>P.S.  Of course, if it was worth the "fuss", I could hack that
>>myself...
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> 
> As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the
> dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or
> GDM login screen?  When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen
> Windows before, their first reaction is how geeky all that text looks as
> it rolls by.  They are turned off before I even get to the login
> screen.  Most current Linuxes are 'better' in this respect.
> 
> I realise it may make it harder to debug failed startups...
> 
> 

Probably not the best solution in the world but you could try...

echo "-h" > /boot.config

Works for 4.11 atleast :-)

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