Re: [Etherboot-developers] Splashimage / Bootlogo

[Markus G. <ma...@gu...>]

Anselm Martin Hoffmeister wrote:
> Now it is, provided you can make your kernel boot completely without text 
> output. The only kernel nbi I have here insists on putting a string like 
> "Uncompressing kernel..." on the screen and complaining about my pci 
> subsystem although I supplied "quiet" as command line option. No matter, if 
> you can have a silent boot, an image can be displayed which will last until 
> the first process writes to console.

The "Uncompressing kernel" message is printed by 
linux/arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c (which happens before the code in 
linux/init/main.c enables quiet mode). Try taking out the "puts" statements and 
see if that addresses your problem. If it does, then you might want to write a 
patch that looks at the command line and disables the messages if "quiet" was 
passed as an option. I am sure, Ken would accept this patch in the "contrib" 
area of etherboot, and I wouldn't be surprised if Marcello and/or Linus were 
willing to introduce it into the main kernel.


Markus


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