(unknown charset) Re: Question on quieting kernel boot

From: (unknown charset) Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:31:48 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:

> des_at_des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
> > I don't know what -m does
> 
> judging from the source code, it causes any attempt to write to or
> read from the console to silently discard all data.
> 
> note that console != ttyv0, so you'll still get a login prompt.

It's for embedded devices (e.g. Interjet :-)
that have either no consloe or little lcd consoles.



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