[ipxe-devel] disable boot messages

[Joshua Oreman]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Paul Geraedts <p.f.j.geraedts at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> For a public computer setup I'm interested in disabling one or more of
> the boot messages of its ipxe bootrom (the ones that allow the ctrl-b
> interrupt of the boot process).
>
> There seem to be 3: one at the beginning that is always displayed,
> another one at the beginning that is only displayed if the network
> boot option is enabled in the bios and a last one at the end that is
> displayed in case ipxe returns control over the boot process (for
> instance in case of an unsuccessful network boot process).
>
> Is there a way to disable one or more of these boot messages? Thanks
> in advance for your help!

Hi Paul,

You can edit the definition of BANNER_TIMEOUT in src/config/general.h
to change this. If you set it to 0, the Ctrl+B functionality will be
disabled in all three places.

Hope this helps!

Josh

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> Paul
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