Silencing Boot Messages / missing quiet parameter?

[luke]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2011, pj at pjb.com.au wrote:

> Luke wrote:
> > Also, it has the paste-hangs-system-sometimes problem,

Which I didn't have in my former version of 3.x on the same laptop under 
ubuntu.  Weird.

> I've still got that. Sometimes means: when you paste into the
> stdin of something (rather than onto /dev/tty).  Except that:
> I ssh to localhost; then I'm always pasting to ssh's /dev/tty,
> and it takes care of writing to the stdin of its subprocesses.

Interesting workaround!  I shall try it.

Thanks

Luke