Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:00:31 +0100 From: Mark Cullen <mark.r.cullen@gmail.com> To: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bye-bye beastie ... Message-ID: <4339B2EF.6040709@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1127852545.655.18.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEHHFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <200509271005.59838.kirk@strauser.com> <4339669E.1020306@daleco.biz> <1127852545.655.18.camel@chaucer.jeays.ca>
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Mike Jeays wrote: > On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 11:34, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > >>Kirk Strauser wrote: >> >> >>>On Monday 26 September 2005 22:54, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Here you are, I'm sure this sort of thing is what you are really >>>>dying to have on there; >>>> >>>> >>> >>>You owe me a new keyboard, preferably a spewed-coffee-proof one. >>> >>>Sincerely, >>>A sincere Christian who doesn't understand what all the fuss is about. >>> >>> >> >>Fortunately I'd finished my drink at the time, but I did wonder >>if he could send out a Protestant version ;-D >> >>KDK >> >>P.S. Of course, if it was worth the "fuss", I could hack that >>myself... >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > As well as turning off the beastie, is there a way to suppress all the > dmesg and other output, so that the first thing to appear is the KDM or > GDM login screen? When I show FreeBSD to people who have only seen > Windows before, their first reaction is how geeky all that text looks as > it rolls by. They are turned off before I even get to the login > screen. Most current Linuxes are 'better' in this respect. > > I realise it may make it harder to debug failed startups... > > Probably not the best solution in the world but you could try... echo "-h" > /boot.config Works for 4.11 atleast :-) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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