Hello all,
how do you eliminate (or turn off) the console output for the various boot messages that are displayed when Suse boots up?
we have some customers that get overly concerned when they see these messages.
thx
mark
you didn’t say if you are using SuSE 9, 10, 11 or KDE3, KDE4, Gnome or
what so this may or may not work for you…
in SuSE 10.3 with KDE3
- open YaST
- give root password
- on left, select “System”
- right changes to a new view, select “Boot Loader”
- new window pops up, it will show several items in a window (here i
see, in order:
openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.18-02 image
Failsafe – openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.18-02 image
Floppy other
- select the top one, and click the “Edit” button
[BE VERY CAREFUL]
- on the line labeled “Optional Kernel Command Line Parameter” you
should see some (oddly enough) optional parameters…you will probably
see “nosplash=silent” (OR something with “splash=" or "nosplash=”),
– change it to “splash=silent” [without the parenthesis]
– or ADD that at the end of the line if there is not now any splash=
-
click ok
-
click finish
it should now hide all that geeky stuff
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
This has no use because they can press the ESC key and it will reveal the message again.
Whenever they press CRTL-ALT-F1 to go to a terminal screen it will show the result of the boot process again.
Just tell these people that this is part of the linux bootprocess and not to break their heads on something they don’t understand.
Hello DenverD and LRE,
thank you VERY MUCH for the replies.
regarding the comments from DenverD:
sorry about that - we run 10.1 (currently) - but do have plans to upgrade our boxes.
i did go through your steps and they map directly to what i see in 10.1.
here is what i see in the box for the kernel parms titled, “Other Kernel Parameters”
resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent showopts
after reading your comments - i believe that the kernel parms ARE set to what they need to be - in order to negate the boot messages from showing up in the console window when the box reboots - but this is not the case. when the box is rebooted - i see the messages ;<
am i missing something in how i interpreted your directions to turn off the splash ??
regarding the (funny 
comments from LRE:
this is exactly what i thought when the issue was mentioned to me. i don’t want to bore you with TMI - but as it was explained to me - we have sales people in the field running SuSE VM’s on their windoze notebooks. i guess a comment was made about some of the messages and that led to the question, “hey can we turn this stuff off ??? this does not look exactly like windoze - and it should.”
thx
mark
> am i missing something in how i interpreted your directions to turn off
> the splash ??
hmmmm…i can just tell you what happens here:
nosplash=silent > and i see all the messages
splash=silent > and i get a graphic cover over the messages
try this, edit that line from its current to nosplash=silent
save that in yast, and then do complete shutdown and re-boot…
i think you will see messages (still)…but if not, SUCCESS
but if you still see the messages, THEN go into yast again and set it to
splash=silent and cross your fingers and reboot again…
good luck,
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
looks like it worked .!!!
Thank you!
> looks like it worked .!!!
which?
nosplash=silent gave you a graphic cover, OR the double boot back to
splash=silent gave the desired cover???
> Thank you!
welcome…
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DenverD (Linux Counter 282315)
A Texan in Denmark
hello DenverD
it was the double boot back to splash=silent that gave the desired cover
thx
mark