Re: A lot of stuff gets printed before login such as 259 %pnpinfo R, 263 sim_time RW

[Matthew Dillon]

Ah, you probably have a 'sysctl var=data' in /etc/sysctl.conf instead of
just 'var=data'.  That is, you probably have the 'sysctl' keyword in your
/etc/sysctl.conf when that file should only contain the var=data
specifications.

-Matt