On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Markus Heuser <mheuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > are you using the "quiet" parameter in GRUBs "kernel" line? > This is what caused fsck to be silent in my case. > > The problem is that I don't wan't the extremely verbose kerneloutputs when not > using "quiet". Besides, it also slows down booting since writing so much text > into framebuffer isn't fast at all. > > So if there was a way to have both, the "quiet" parameter and a fsck > progressbar that would be very neat. > > Markus > I was looking into the initscripts git history and found the commit for that change made in 12/12/2005: http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=initscripts.git;a=blob;f=rc.sysinit;hb=675e9d69d02233e0079672f6c10cbe07da3027ad There is no information of bugreport or feature request about it, so should it be sane to open a feature request to remove this behaviour? Would anyone disagree? -- ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto ------------------------------------------- Robert Benchley - "Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."