Silent boot?

[Mike Hogsett]

> Anyone know whether it'd be possible to cleanly disable printing the
> kernel boot messages (the bold white text)?  Meaning, short of
> commenting out the code that prints this, is there any way?

If you dont mind **NOT** having a console **AT ALL** you can comment out
the system console device (see below) in the kernel config and
rebuild/install a new kernel.

>From /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC : 
...
device          sc0     at isa? flags 0x100
...

Advantage : no kernel message on console (in fact, no console! Doh!)
Disadvantage : makes single user mode difficult at best :P

 - Mike