How to disable boot messages on startup?

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I am running Gentoo currently. I don't want to see the boot messages it shows me. My /etc/default/grub has these lines: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="quiet splash" and GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash", and updated grub with grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

It still shows me boot messages. Do I have to do something else?

Thanks!

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 09 '20 at 11:16

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From https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2:

The grub-mkconfig script is used to generate a grub configuration. It uses the scripts under /etc/grub.d/* together with the /etc/default/grub configuration file to generate the final /boot/grub/grub.cfg - the only configuration file used by GRUB2 itself.

So you need to do that by running something like

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

answered Aug 09 '20 at 11:16

eleventyone

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Of course I have done that... I have edited my question to include that. – Akshat Vats Aug 10 '20 at 05:55
`quiet` hides diagnostic messages but not everything. Do you mean you still see the normal quiet output? What do you want to see instead? – eleventyone Aug 15 '20 at 12:15
Yes I see the normal boot messages like the loading of OpenRC. I want to see, maybe an image instead? – Akshat Vats Aug 16 '20 at 01:15
You have `splash` already so it sounds like you're missing Plymouth and an appropriate theme then. – eleventyone Aug 16 '20 at 08:49

How to disable boot messages on startup?

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