Suppress all boot output (framebuffer?) - embedded linux distro

Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.santosa at gmail.com
Tue Feb 19 14:00:52 EST 2013


On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Ivan Nikolaev <voidexp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm developing an ubuntu 12.04 (LTS) based embedded distribution, which
> basically is a normal ubuntu stripped down to bare minimal packages,
> which runs a minimal XOrg server with one single full-screen
> application. What I want is to suppress every single char of console
> output since the bootloader passed control to the kernel, and possibly
> show instead of that some static text and/or image. What I thought is to
> try to disable printk-s and to write some kind of patch which uses the
> framebuffer to show the logo. Is that possible/difficult? Can you
> eventually explain where I should dig?


IIRC, isn't that what ubuntu 12.04 does during boot stage by default ?
i mean, no boot message shown....


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