On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > When I downgrade initscripts and mkinitcpio (to versions of around > february), run mkinitcpio -p kernel26, and reboot, shouldn't I get > the 'old style' boot messages (without the timing in []) ? > > But I don't... > > Are we forgetting something ? That's decided by the kernel. Could you try downgrading your kernel too? Possibly install the kernel26-lts? -t