[syslinux] New 'quiet' behavior - optional?

[Kenneth Morse]

Syslinux version 3.74 introduced the following change (I know, old news really)

-> Suppress the Loading ... message if "quiet" is specified on the
kernel command line.

Unfortunately, for our PXELinux environment this was a very unwanted
change.  The linux command line parameter 'quiet' is included and
passed to linux because we want (and in cases absolutely require) that
the kernel be booted in quiet mode.  However, since 3.74 this also
means that PXELinux runs quietly, making it impossible to see if the
image is properly loading, or if it is stalled, or slow.   We appear
to be left with no way to specify (that I can find) the quietness of
the two independently.  (In my view, it was undesirable to piggyback
off of an already existing commonly used parameter - making it
impossible to separate the two).  This means we are left with two
undesirable choices, to either run completely silent (making network
or server or pxe firmware problems very difficult to detect), or run
without quiet completely, which causes us problems on the linux side.

Any workable suggestions with the current code (running 4.03 now)?  Or
do I need to work on a environment where I can custom build my own
pxelinux.0 or gpxelinux.0?

(I'm assuming there's near zero chance of me convincing you to change
the existing behavior. As I recognize it's a beneficial behavior in
probably 99% of cases).

Thanks,

-Ken