This appears to be down to Syslinux, specifically a change introduced in 3.74 http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Syslinux_3_Changelog#Changes_in_3.74 Suppress the Loading ... message if "quiet" is specified on the kernel > command line. and the fix that we already knew is to use loglevel=4 instead of quiet http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2010-November/015688.html Use "loglevel=4" instead of "quiet" > > It appears that the quiet kernel parameter also sets a quiet flag in Syslinux as well, which is doing something horrible to early framebuffers. As to the original question, it seems that "quiet" and "loglevel=4" are identical indeed, unless you use Syslinux. -- Jason Steadman http://www.meyithi.com/ http://twitter.com/meyithi
