I'm trying to disable the monitor display so nothing is shown (neigher while booting nor when it's time for the shell prompt) (after the grub boot selections) on a monitor connected to a buildt in VGA card. This is (mostly) off-topic here, but I'll help you anyway. The easiest method is to pass console=ttyS0,115200 to the kernel. You won't see anything on the screen (during booting), only
On Sep 24, Bo Jacobsen <subs@systemhouse.dk> wrote: the login prompt is shown when it's finished. With a vesa console, the little tux is shown, but I think this is absolutely ok :) You also have the advantage, that you can still see the boot messages by attaching a serial console. If you don't want a login prompt, remove the appropriate tty entries in /etc/inittab (and maybe add one for ttyS0 to be able to login if network is down). Also, why don't you use the bootsplash patch? It should give you just what you want ... (apart from disabling console logins). Markus PS: Answer privately please, I don't think that this stuff belongs here. -- __________________ /"\ Markus Gaugusch \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign markus@gaugusch.at X Against HTML Mail / \