I'm looking to clean up my display as my machine boots. Up until the time init(8) starts, everything is fine. After that point, kernel messages and init script messages become interleaved, and I find it difficult to tell at a glance if something has gone wrong on startup (and on the fast machines of today, a glance is all you get before X starts :-)
So, at the beginning of the init process, I would like the kernel messages to be redirected to another tty - preferably /dev/tty12, since I dont use that for anything else. It would be nice if all kernel printk after that point go to that console too (ie. not just boot up messages, but also the regular printks that occur as the system runs). I've tried setting CONSOLE and console on the kernel command line to [/dev/]tty12, but that didn't work. Is it possible to do this? Even just knowing the syscalls to do this would be fine if there's no other way. I'll just hack init. CHeers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
