picky detail about initramfs

albright · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject: picky detail about initramfs

Hi all. I'm not sure this is the right forum for this
question ... but here goes.

I've set my notebook to boot with an initramfs (via an
initrd line). The notebook is a fujitsu p7010 (old I know)
with intel graphics ...

This is kernel tuxonice-2.6.23-r4. Everything
works great.

Except for about 1 second or so after grub is finished and
the kernel starts to boot I can see the boot messages *before*
the splashscreen appears (on my faster desktop computer you
can't really notice any such delay).

My question - which is purely cosmetic - is this: is there any way
to suppress the boot text messages before the splash screen loads?
Ideally, I want a blank screen and then the splash screen with zero
time spent revealing the first few boot text messages (if you see
what I mean - like ubuntu

)
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skellr · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 5:12 pm Post subject:

Adding the boot parameter quiet should do the trick.

albright · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 7:47 pm Post subject:

thanks for that but "quiet" is already in place

Here's the relevant part of my grub.conf

niceness · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 8:18 pm Post subject:

If the message looks something like this, then it is grub stage2 and not the kernel.
You will need to patch grub to hide it (look at ubuntu patches).

albright · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject:

You are right, niceness - it is a grub message I see.
Well, I can find the ubuntu patch for grub 1.97 (which
is what I'm using) but I'm a little fuzzy on how you
patch an ebuild. Anyone got some pointers?
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albright · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject:

OK, this is what I did.

First I copied the ubuntu grub-0.97-silent_succeed.patch file
into the /usr/portage/sys-boot/grub directory.

Second, I modified the ebuild by adding one line (marked
by *** in the code below):

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albright · Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:42 pm Post subject:

The "inherit eutils" was already present. And I get
an OK with the applying patch message during the
compile.

I've carefully watched my other gentoo computer (amd64x2)
boot and there is not so much as a flicker of grub messages.
That computer has standard gentoo grub.

Can't imagine what might be wrong ...
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