Lost quiet boot

**imbjr** · May 5th, 2008

The machine no longer quietly boots, I get a good long stream of what the OS is doing to boot, starting with a "Loading files for booting".

Examination of dmesg does not reveal anything, except there are some interesting entries, but they occur after the display becomes "unquiet" so I do not think they are responsible.

menu.lst does not reveal a change in the quiet settings. quiet is where is should be. I do remember looking at the Login Window Preferences, but that stuff is way down stream of this "feature".

Here's a portion of dmesg

[ 47.561487] fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[ 47.718774] [fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 2887 MBytes.
[ 47.718877] [fglrx] ASYNCIO init succeed!
[ 47.720345] [fglrx] PAT is enabled successfully!
[ 47.720414] [fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.47.3 [Feb 25 2008] on minor 0
[ 47.826661] input: Wacom Graphire2 4x5 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/input/input5
[ 47.861116] usbcore: registered new interface driver wacom
[ 47.861162] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/input/tablet/wacom_sys.c: v1.47:USB Wacom Graphire and Wacom Intuos tablet driver
[ 48.008438] iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
[ 48.046268] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 48.046365] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
[ 48.062144] iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.02 (26-Jul-2007)
[ 48.062256] iTCO_wdt: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
[ 48.062309] iTCO_wdt: No card detected

It's just before [ 48.062256] that the quiet boot stops, so [ 48.062256] is not doing this.

**Sub101** · May 5th, 2008

How is your grub setup?

**imbjr** · May 5th, 2008

I just added the vga bit, but that did not help:

Code:

# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
#            grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
#            grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
#            and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.

## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
#
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default		0

## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout		5

## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
hiddenmenu

# Pretty colours
#color cyan/blue white/blue

## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line)  and entries protected by the
# command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
#      password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret

#
# examples
#
# title		Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root		(hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader	+1
#
# title		Linux
# root		(hd0,1)
# kernel	/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
#

#
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
##      kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=9a28f06d-d906-4a8e-a3c8-e371322d83d2 ro

## Setup crashdump menu entries
## e.g. crashdump=1
# crashdump=0

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,4)

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
##      alternative=false
# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
##      lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash

## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
##      lockold=true
# lockold=false

## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=

## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
##      altoptions=(recovery) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
##      howmany=7
# howmany=all

## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
##      memtest86=false
# memtest86=true

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false

## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false

## ## End Default Options ##

title		Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic
root		(hd0,4)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=9a28f06d-d906-4a8e-a3c8-e371322d83d2 ro quiet splash vga=795
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic
quiet

title		Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic (recovery mode)
root		(hd0,4)
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-16-generic root=UUID=9a28f06d-d906-4a8e-a3c8-e371322d83d2 ro single
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-16-generic

title		Ubuntu 8.04, memtest86+
root		(hd0,4)
kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title		Other operating systems:
root


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda1
title		Dell Utility Partition
root		(hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1


# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda4
title		Windows NT/2000/XP
root		(hd0,3)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader	+1

**Sub101** · May 5th, 2008

mines the same.
I think the problem is that splashy doesn't connect. If you watch the boot up it displays the message.

I haven't been able to fix it yet.