On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 06:26:40AM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote: > On 26 July 2011 05:43, Evangelos Foutras <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 25 July 2011 23:51, Tom Gundersen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The VERBOSE parameter no longer has an effect, use the kernel's > >> loglevel= parameter instead. Most p > > > > I don't like this change. While you say there's a way to make it less > > verbose, after only merging the changes to rc.conf, dmesg output will > > get interleaved with initscripts output during boot, which looks > > horrible: http://imgur.com/a/wbG9z > > > > No signoff. :> > > Dave explained to me on IRC that the loglevel=[1-8] or quiet options > can be passed to the kernel to control this. > > It would make sense to default to, say, loglevel=4 (that's what quiet > sets) if no verbosity-related options are passed to the kernel.
So, would this be done in initscripts or initramfs? The 'quiet' parameter isn't some big secret. > Another possible issue: > > $ runlevel > unknown That's possibly a huge issue. When is that visible? > On another machine without the initscripts package from [testing] the > output differs: > > $ runlevel > N 5
