Debian Boot Process

[amrclutch1]

The boot process output for debian is quite messy, what files can I alter to change the formatting? I want it to show like


Mounting root filesystem [Done]


with the [Done] in green or [FAILED] if it... failed. How could I do this, PCLinuxOS shows an example of this, I think.

This is what I am talking about
http://www.bootsplash.org/Image:Verbose-mode.jpg

[maybeway36]

Try adding quiet to the end of the kernel line in menu.lst like:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-3-686 root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet
It works in Ubuntu, not sure if Debian does or not (I've never really cared what my computer said when booting.)

[amrclutch1]

That helps, but how can I change it to how I want, there has to be a way, after all, it's linux.

[kellemes]

That helps, but how can I change it to how I want, there has to be a way, after all, it's linux.


Well, it is GNU/Linux so it should be possible indeed.
Have you asked at the Debian forums (http://forums.debian.net/)?

Personally I like the "not so slick" output of Debian, it sort of belongs to Debian, boring but functional. :)

[kellemes]

Splashy (http://splashy.alioth.debian.org/wiki/start)