In SuSE 8.x I redirected boot screen text away from tty1 by using the grub boot option console=/dev/ttys0,115200 This no longer works as expected in 9.0. In /var/log/boot.msg I can see that the serial device is named /dev/ttys00, but redirecting data to this device hchanges nothing. I have also tested it using tty3 as output device, and I can see that the output is NOT redirected to tty3 until after the following lines: Freeing unused memory kernel memory: 333k freed Adding swap: ....... The rest of the output is then on tty3. The first line on tty3 is: INIT: Version 2.82 booting It look as if INIT is accepting the grub command "console=/dev/..." but whatever runs things prior to that, do not. This is different from SuSE 8.x. Any suggestions Thanks in advance.