Hallo Sebastian,

Sebastian Krohn <seb@gaia.sunn.de> wrote:
>I'm trying to eliminate _all_ boot-messages on the console.
>I don't want anything to be printed out till the login prompt.
>(no kernel messages and no messages from upcoming system daemons)
[...]
>However ... i think even if i get this done it would be an untidy
>hack - anyone having a better idea? Something like the Bootup-Logo
>in FreeBSD would be nice (but mainly i have to get the Messages out
>from the console)

Whenn you use the serial bootblock, all kernel messages are printed on
the serial console (even if you don't have one).

~> man 8 installboot
~> cd /usr/mdec
/usr/mdec> installboot biosboot_com0.sym /dev/rwd0a

But this could be dangerous if you don't have a serial console for
maintenance (e.g single user mode is directed to serial too).

~
Oliver