From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 12 12:55:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from penelope.skunk.org (penelope.skunk.org [208.133.204.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A89E14F80; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 12:55:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@penelope.skunk.org) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by penelope.skunk.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA33793; Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:44:54 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 14:44:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Rosengart To: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: it's time... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so great > about not seeing the system boot up? One might want minimal or no boot messages, just to look nice, while still wanting the dmesg stuff around in case something goes wrong or they need to configure a kernel. It's certainly chrome, but I'd like it. -- Ben UNIX Systems Engineer, Skunk Group StarMedia Network, Inc. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message