From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Arguments to skip boot menu and to hide bios output Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 11:09:51 +0000 Message-ID: <20090207110951.GC29664@redhat.com> References: <1233965825-17970-1-git-send-email-FOSS@AtlasTechnologiesInc.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Cory Fields Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35464 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752698AbZBGLJz (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Feb 2009 06:09:55 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1233965825-17970-1-git-send-email-FOSS@AtlasTechnologiesInc.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|