how can off the kernel boot echoo

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hi
how can off the kernel boot echoo like
xinet [OK]
or other booting echo message and boot my linux box
silent?
regards
lini

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

That part of the boot process is not actually the kernel - its the 'init' process which is driven by scripts starting with /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit . For example, if you default to runlevel 3, that will call all the scripts symbolically linked from /etc/rc.d/init.d to /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc3.d (i.e. rc3.d = runlevel 3 directory). You'd maybe get away with changing the 'parent' script but, if not, you have to change all the scripts in /etc/rc.d/init.d .

The messages you get before the 'OK' stuff are from the kernel itself, i.e. are printk messages. There are a few kernel patches around that suppress these but you'd have to compile a custom kernel to get it to work.

So, in summary - as far as I know there are no 'easy' ways to do what you want.

Hope this helps