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<DIV>The BIOS is Award & the board is <A
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mike.steinmann@gmail.com
href="mailto:mike.steinmann@gmail.com">Michael Steinmann</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:07 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=foo@live.in href="mailto:foo@live.in">Kapil</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Voyage-linux] Hiding all console
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doesn't disable the serial port, so you can still use them in your app.<BR>what
board/BIOS are you using?<BR><BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV>Ah.. But unfortunately I’m using both the serial ports that I have for
other purposes in my app. But in any case enabling tty/consoles should happen
later on in the boot sequence right? </DIV>
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<DIV>My boot sequence looks like this:</DIV>
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<DIV>Device turned on –> Bios splash –> blank screen & blinking
cursor –> plymouth splash –> app</DIV>
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<DIV>I’m trying to remove the blinking cursor before the kernel even starts
booting.</DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=mike.steinmann@gmail.com
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:52 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=foo@live.in href="mailto:foo@live.in"
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line enables the console on ttyS0:<BR>T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty –L
ttyS0<BR><BR>so, if you comment out similar lines you shouldn't have any
console any more.<BR><BR>/M<BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV>No, I haven’t enabled those entries. The only changes I’ve made to
inittab is to change the default run level and launch my app.</DIV>
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<DIV><B>From:</B> <A title=mike.steinmann@gmail.com
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:30 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=foo@live.in href="mailto:foo@live.in"
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style="FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: small; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Hi,<BR><BR>have
you tried to make changes in "/etc/inittab": <BR>comment
"T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty –L ttyS0" and similar
entries?<BR><BR>Michael<BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV>I’m creating a kiosk type appliance based on Voyage 0.7.0 that boots
into a custom X11 app. I want to hide all console like activity from the
moment the device is turned on. </DIV>
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<DIV>So far I’ve managed to hide everything by flashing a custom bios,
tweaking init.d scripts, recompiling grub to disable the printfs.. etc,
except .. for a blinking cursor that is visible for few seconds before the
plymouth splash comes up. I’m guessing the cursor blinks while the kernel
is being decompressed or while grub loads the kernel. Is there any way to
hide that? </DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks !</DIV>
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