Based on information in the listed URLs I've created a patch to totally silence all [info] messages from legacy grub, this includes the "Loading...", "Stage..." and menu entry output. Warnings/errors are not suppressed (please test), and the Grub menu still works (if hiddenmenu is not set). There's still a brief flash of "GRUB ... <something>" which I haven't yet traced (help?), but it's a lot less verbose than it was without this patch. A patch to remove that last remnant of output, and to remove the blinking cursor (if possible), would also be very welcome. Then we can go from boot directly into fbslash (silent) with no other output at all, making a much cleaner booting experience. Please consider this RFE. Thank you. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot any Linux system with legacy grub installed 2. 3. Actual Results: Piles of (very user-unfriendly) spurious text dumped on the console, some of which is related to GRUB. Expected Results: A clean, silent boot.
See also: http://code.google.com/p/paf-ebuilds/source/browse/trunk/sys-boot/grub/files/silent-start.patch?r=24
Created attachment 308591 [details, diff] grub-0.97-silence.patch
Created attachment 308593 [details, diff] grub-0.97-r10.ebuild-silence.patch
sorry, but the focus is on grub2 now. non-critical/important changes to grub1 aren't really being considered anymore.
Understood,
