On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:43 AM, Meyithi <mail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. nice catch -- that would make sense why all my machines behave the same way -- i *knew* syslinux was to blame!!! i'll try it out too, thanks. -- C Anthony