[syslinux] Giving misleading information

[Clifford Wolf]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:11:12PM -0400, Brown, Larry wrote:
> So I am close, but they can give a boot parameter to set the console back to
> tty again using the prompt.  I also need to find a way to eliminate the
> Uncompressing Linux... line.  

This is already printed by the kernel. Look at decompress_kernel() in
arch/i386/boot/compressed/misc.c in the linux kernel source.

Just patch the two putstr() calls away if you don't like them (or
substitute them with different texts).

yours,
 - clifford

-- 
#!/usr/bin/perl
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"SJNFTZBUZ<IUUQ:;;XXX.DMJGGPSE.BU;QSJNF;>\n";y:B-Zl;:a-x M/:;print;

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