On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Gavin Robert Brewer wrote:
Not wishing to be negative, but I would really like to ask Linus as to why he chose to have all that spam redirected to the screen at bootup. It is'nt very eyecatching.
You only get important information upon Linux boot. You may choose verbose boot with the "debug" kernel argument or silent one with the "quiet" argument. It's all up to you.