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

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

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.

Daniel
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