[syslinux] New 'quiet' behavior - optional?

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 11/22/2010 03:24 PM, Kenneth Morse wrote:
> 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).
> 

Use "loglevel=4" instead of "quiet".

	-hpa