On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 11:28:58AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Josh Triplett wrote: > > If the goal here is to hide the boot messages by default, note that > > the default kernel command line includes "quiet", which hides most > > kernel messages and systemd messages. > > Note that the hiding of systemd messages is unintentional, and can make > debugging a system that fails to boot challanging. #718038 > > I asked the systemd maintainers to not make it overload quiet to do > that, but they don't want to, so if systemd continues being used in > Debian (even if not as default), d-i will need to start adding > systemd.show_status=1 to the kernel command line.
Following up on this thread: this has now been addressed in upstream systemd as of 209: "Boot-time status output is now enabled automatically after a short timeout if boot does not progress, in order to give the user an indication what she or he is waiting for." That seems like exactly the right behavior: quiet by default, but noisy if something goes wrong, where "taking too long" qualifies as something going wrong. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140221042359.GA2844@jtriplet-mobl1
