On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:17:01PM -0500, Cory Fields wrote: > > This patchset creates new commandline arguments -quietboot and > -fastboot > > -quietboot silences normal text output from the bios and vgabios. I > rarely care to see this output and it looks much cleaner when the > first thing shown in a KVM window is init or splash (or the dreaded > Windows logo) > > -fastboot lets you explicitly skip the "Press f12 for boot menu" option > saving ~3 seconds on each boot. It is also implied by -kernel -boot > or -quietboot. I'd be inclined to say that both of these options should be on by default, and that you should have to give a explicit flag to turn on slow BIOS boot, and/or the F12 menu. Neither of these are very useful features in general daily usage. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
