making grub completely silent

[Mario Emmenlauer]

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Hi,

I want grub to become completely silent. Namely I want the
message 'Press <ESC> to show menu' and the message stating
the loaded kernel and initrd to disappear.

I need that for hundreds of distributed systems where users
shouldn't be able to gather information about running services
(including kernel version and bootloader) for security reasons.
However, showing a boot-splash without any text would be fine.

What I tried, is setting combinations of below options in
grub's menu.lst:

timeout 0
silent
terminal --dumb --no-echo --timeout=0 --lines=0 --silent console
hiddenmenu
default 0
# here comes the kernel

That didn't bring the desired effect. Why doesn't 'silent' make
grub completely silent? Isn't that it's desired intent?

BTW: I'm using gentoo's grub-0.96-r2

Any help greatly appreciated,

  Mario Emmenlauer


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