Subject: Re: Startup Messages
To: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/12/2002 14:55:08
On 2002-07-12 11:36 +0000, Martin Weber wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 05:17:45AM -0400, Michael G. Schabert wrote:
> > At 10:26 AM +0200 7/12/02, Nicolas Saurbier wrote:
> > >is there any Kernel-option, that disables the messages during
> > >boot? I don?t want to see these messages:
> >
> > Yes you do.
> > You just don't know that you do.
> >
> > If you *ever* have any problems, that's the first place we'll ask
> > you to look (dmesg).
>
> So what ? I guess his point is that he doesn't want to see those
> message during starting, can always type 'dmesg' when it runs when
> we ask for one. So if he *ever* has any problems, he'll boot, type
> dmesg, pipe that into some file, and send it to us, where's the
> problem ?
Except perhaps, for those cases that some problem stops the kernel
from booting long before any sort of login terminal is up :-/