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Add the consolelog bootscript and remove printk handling in modules script

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8222 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Dan Nichilson 17 years ago
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  1. 11 1
      chapter01/changelog.xml
  2. 16 5
      chapter07/console.xml
  3. 2 2
      general.ent

+ 11 - 1
chapter01/changelog.xml

@@ -155,6 +155,16 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2007-07-18</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[dnicholson] - Described the configuration of the consolelog
+          bootscript.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2007-06-12</para>
       <itemizedlist>
@@ -177,7 +187,7 @@
         <listitem>
           <para>[ken] - Upgrade to tar-1.17, fixes
           <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2029">#2029</ulink>.</para>
-	</listitem>
+        </listitem>
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
 

+ 16 - 5
chapter07/console.xml

@@ -16,14 +16,16 @@
   </indexterm>
 
   <para>This section discusses how to configure the <command>console</command>
-  bootscript that sets up the keyboard map and the console font. If non-ASCII
-  characters (e.g., the copyright sign, the British pound sign and Euro symbol)
-  will not be used and the keyboard is a U.S. one, skip this section. Without
+  and <command>consolelog</command> bootscripts that set up the keyboard map,
+  console font and console kernel log level. If non-ASCII characters (e.g.,
+  the copyright sign, the British pound sign and Euro symbol) will not be used
+  and the keyboard is a U.S. one, much of this section can be skipped. Without
   the configuration file, the <command>console</command> bootscript will do
   nothing.</para>
 
-  <para>The <command>console</command> script reads the
-  <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file for configuration information.
+  <para>The <command>console</command>  and <command>consolelog</command>
+  script reads the <filename>/etc/sysconfig/console</filename> file for
+  configuration information.
   Decide which keymap and screen font will be used. Various language-specific
   HOWTOs can also help with this, see <ulink
   url="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/other-lang.html"/>. If still in
@@ -37,6 +39,15 @@
 
   <variablelist>
 
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>LOGLEVEL</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>This variable specifies the log level for kernel messages sent
+        to the console as set by <command>dmesg</command>. Valid levels are
+        from "1" (no messages) to "8". The default level is "7".</para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+
     <varlistentry>
       <term>KEYMAP</term>
       <listitem>

+ 2 - 2
general.ent

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20070714">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "July 14, 2007">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20070718">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "July 18, 2007">
 <!ENTITY milestone "6.3">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->