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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Jorge Bernal (Koke)" <koke_lkml@amedias.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6.5] Oversized FB logos
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 11:44:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040417114455.B14786@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404171126.09188.koke_lkml@amedias.org>; from koke_lkml@amedias.org on Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:26:09AM +0200

On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:26:09AM +0200, Jorge Bernal (Koke) wrote:
> what about passing CONSOLE=/dev/tty2 or CONSOLE=/dev/null at boot loader 
> command line?? I saw that once in something like bootsplash or lpp but I'm 
> not sure if this will work well.

Even better - use quiet on the kernel command line.  This sets the
console level to 4, which means only error, critical, alert and
emergency messages will appear on the console.

This means that, should something go wrong, grandma can "bug out"
and phone you, and read the error message to you.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-17 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-17  3:07 [2.6.5] Oversized FB logos Joshua Kwan
2004-04-17  9:26 ` Jorge Bernal (Koke)
2004-04-17 10:44   ` Russell King [this message]
2004-04-21 21:05   ` James Simmons

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