On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:43 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. For what it's worth: I'm using syslinux with quiet without seeing this problem (using i915). Also, the last kernel commit I pointed to in a previous email shows a place in the boot code where "quiet" is indeed different from "loglevel=4", just in case someone came across a different problem. Cheers, Tom