Re: redirecting kernel boot bios messages

[Ted U <grendel@heorot.stanford.edu>]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 md5@ghettohackers.net wrote:

> hello,
>
> is there an effective way to redirect the kernel bios boot messages
> to /dev/null directly after POST?  Would it then be possible to throw up some
> ascii art like:

set tty com0 in boot.conf should work.  Then edit rc so it only prints
your message, and not other stuff.

If you want to get really fancy, FreeBSD has code for a graphical splash
screen during boot.




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