Bug#476349: please provide a '--quiet' option (or similar)

Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> since grub-pc (>= 1.96+20080413-1) provides a wrapper script, that
> interprets os-prober's output and adds other operating systems to the
> grub menu, os-prober is allways run when 'update-grub' is run. It is
> annoying to have the console flooded ech time by kernel messages
> regarding os-prober's attempt to mount this or that partition. Will it
> be possible to introduce a '--quiet' option or similar to os-prober
> which will suppress these kernel messages?

The only way to supress kernel printks to the console is to write to /proc/sys/kernel/printk. It is out of scope for os-proper to do that.

I wish that the grub people had talked to us before deciding to use os-prober by default. This looks like an increasingly bad idea.

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