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Mostafa Hashemi

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Jul 11, 2012, 10:50:01 AM7/11/12
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hi friends
i want to hide the messages shown while Debian boots up. i dont want to use boot splash, i want the user see nothing at all and the user dont have the ability to see what are being shown while Debian boots up ...
what should i do ? please help im new to Debian ...
im using Debian 6 amd64

thanks ... 

Camaleón

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Jul 11, 2012, 11:20:01 AM7/11/12
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:02:24 +0430, Mostafa Hashemi wrote:

> hi friends

Hi! (but please, don't post using html, thanks)
You can use a black splash image but pressing "Esc" will still showing
the booting messages.

If you want to completely disable these messages I think there's a kernel
option you can toggle on/off but, would you prefer to recompile the
kernel just for this? :-?

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Darac Marjal

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Jul 11, 2012, 11:30:02 AM7/11/12
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 03:14:14PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:02:24 +0430, Mostafa Hashemi wrote:
>
> > hi friends
>
> Hi! (but please, don't post using html, thanks)
>
> > i want to hide the messages shown while Debian boots up. i dont want to
> > use boot splash, i want the user see nothing at all and the user dont
> > have the ability to see what are being shown while Debian boots up ...
> > what should i do ? please help im new to Debian ... im using Debian 6
> > amd64
>
> You can use a black splash image but pressing "Esc" will still showing
> the booting messages.
>
> If you want to completely disable these messages I think there's a kernel
> option you can toggle on/off but, would you prefer to recompile the
> kernel just for this? :-?

Adding "quiet nosplash" to the kernel command line should remove MOST of
the messages.

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Camaleón

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Jul 11, 2012, 11:40:01 AM7/11/12
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Yes, but not "all" of them and my wild guess is that the OP wanted
"none" :-)

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Mostafa Hashemi

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Jul 11, 2012, 12:40:02 PM7/11/12
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thank you my friends
where should i add "quiet nosplash" exactly ?
any other ways ????

thanks agian ... :D

Ralf Mardorf

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Jul 11, 2012, 1:00:01 PM7/11/12
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Grub2 or Grub Legacy?


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Camaleón

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On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:49:12 +0430, Mostafa Hashemi wrote:

(remember to send in plain text...)

> thank you my friends
> where should i add "quiet nosplash" exactly ? any other ways ????

In Wheezy, that's the default, I guess.

It can be set from "/etc/default/grub" file, variable
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet", not sure for squeeze, though.

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Ralf Mardorf

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Jul 11, 2012, 1:10:02 PM7/11/12
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On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 16:52 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:49:12 +0430, Mostafa Hashemi wrote:
>
> (remember to send in plain text...)
>
> > thank you my friends
> > where should i add "quiet nosplash" exactly ? any other ways ????
>
> In Wheezy, that's the default, I guess.
>
> It can be set from "/etc/default/grub" file, variable
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet", not sure for squeeze, though.

For AVLinux (stable, squeeze) there's also such a file with such an
entry. I'm using another grub, however, I suspect that "quiet nosplash"
will not do what the OP wants to get.


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David Sastre Medina

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Jul 12, 2012, 6:00:02 AM7/12/12
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 06:59:56PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 16:52 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:49:12 +0430, Mostafa Hashemi wrote:
> >
> > (remember to send in plain text...)
> >
> > > thank you my friends
> > > where should i add "quiet nosplash" exactly ? any other ways ????
> >
> > In Wheezy, that's the default, I guess.
> >
> > It can be set from "/etc/default/grub" file, variable
> > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet", not sure for squeeze, though.
>
> For AVLinux (stable, squeeze) there's also such a file with such an
> entry. I'm using another grub, however, I suspect that "quiet nosplash"
> will not do what the OP wants to get.

There's plymouth.

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Mika Suomalainen

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Jul 12, 2012, 6:40:02 AM7/12/12
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On 11.07.2012 19:19, Mostafa Hashemi wrote:
> where should i add "quiet nosplash" exactly ?

/etc/default/grub

and the line, which you should have/add/edit should look like this
after you save the file.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"


After modifying /etc/default/grub, you should run "update-grub" for
the modifications to take effect.

PS. Please don't send HTML as suggested by Debian mailing list guidelines.

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Mostafa Hashemi

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Jul 14, 2012, 2:20:01 AM7/14/12
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thank you all ...
and specially you, Mika Suomalainen :)
i did edit grub , but i can see the messages at boot time....
what should i do ??? :(((((

Camaleón

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Jul 14, 2012, 6:40:02 AM7/14/12
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On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:30:12 +0430, Mostafa Hashemi wrote:

> thank you all ...

You're welcome but please, use text formatted messages, thanks.

> and specially you, Mika Suomalainen :) i did edit grub , but i can see
> the messages at boot time.... what should i do ??? :(((((

The easier way is using a boot splash system such splashy or plymouth
(why you don't want this?) or "quiet" to get the lesser kernel messages
at booting but there are still services showing up...

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Chris Bannister

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Did you run update-grub?

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