Re: Remove grub messaging on the happy-path

[Andrei Borzenkov]

02.09.2016 00:11, Joshua Warner пишет:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking to remove grub messaging from the boot cycle, unless something
> goes wrong.  I like my boot screens to have as little mode-change flashing
> and text flying past as possible, from an aesthetic perspective.  Plus, they
> might scare users who aren't familiar with GRUB.
> 
> Removing the menu is as simple as `set timeout=0` in the config, but the
> "Welcome to GRUB" and "Booting `<item>'" messages are trickier - they seem
> to be hard-coded.
> 
> I have few questions:
> * What's the purpose of these messages?

To provide some feedback about where booting is (stuck).

> * Why are these hard-coded?
> * Might patches be accepted to remove them, or at least make them
> configurable?
> 

If you want to work on it, please find the way to display terminal
window only conditionally. So far I failed to find where it is
displayed, so even if you turn off all messages you still get black
terminal window :)

Another alternative is to support transparent background for this window.

> For reference, I'm talking about grub-core/kern/main.c:274 and
> grub-core/normal/menu.c:814.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joshua
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