Re: kernel support for non-english user messages

DevilKin
2003-04-11T05:28:27Z

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On Friday 11 April 2003 01:05, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> A whole lot of users use dmesg output to figure out if their kernel is
> detecting a piece of hardware. That's a very useful thing to have handy
> and definitely not something that should be yanked out for the sake of
> making it look pretty for people who don't know what they're doing with
> their computer.

True.

Why not turn it into a kernel flag that you can set at bootup through LILO or
some other obscure boot manager? Then you could boot linux like this:

linux dmesg=verbose

and

linux dmesg=quiet

with any of the two being the default setting. This way you can have the cake
and eat it too: the verbose setting for those that want it, and the quiet
setting for the users that don't want to get scared sh*tless everytime their
system boots. I know I got scared first time I booted a Linux box :P

Jan
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