Re: [PATCH 0/4] Arguments to skip boot menu and to hide bios output

Anthony Liguori
2009-02-07T16:02:15Z

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:17:01PM -0500, Cory Fields wrote:
>
>> This patchset creates new commandline arguments -quietboot and
>> -fastboot
>>
>> -quietboot silences normal text output from the bios and vgabios. I
>> rarely care to see this output and it looks much cleaner when the
>> first thing shown in a KVM window is init or splash (or the dreaded
>> Windows logo)
>>
>> -fastboot lets you explicitly skip the "Press f12 for boot menu" option
>> saving ~3 seconds on each boot. It is also implied by -kernel -boot
>> or -quietboot.
>>
>
> I'd be inclined to say that both of these options should be on by
> default, and that you should have to give a explicit flag to turn
> on slow BIOS boot, and/or the F12 menu. Neither of these are very
> useful features in general daily usage.
>

Disabling the F12 prompt by default makes sense to me. I think we
should continue letting Bochs print their splash screen though. It's
good to make the role the BIOSes play visible by default.

If vendors want to disable it, the option will be there.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Daniel
>