Bug#465245: grub-pc: Please make quiet option the default.

[Otavio Salvador]

Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> writes:

> Robert Millan wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 01:26:29PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
>>>> I'd prefer if the quiet kopt was used by default.
>>>> The easiest way to achieve this, is to add
>>>> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=quiet
>>>> to /etc/default/grub.
>>> Is there a consensus that this is the most appropiate?  If so, please refer me
>>> to the relevant discussion.
>> 
>> Btw, are you sure "usplash" is not what you want?
>
> Nope, I want to see the "relevant" boot messages (like daemons that are
> started). Without the quiet boot option though, I get too much "noise"
> from the kernel and I miss the important information.

This is done, on grub, due the grub-installer setting it.

However I don't think grub2, itself, ought to set it.

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