Merge pull request #108294 from GovanifY/silent-boot

boot.initrd: add verbose option

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix b/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix
index cb9735ae04f..44287f3cf09 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ let
 
     inherit (config.system.build) earlyMountScript;
 
-    inherit (config.boot.initrd) checkJournalingFS
+    inherit (config.boot.initrd) checkJournalingFS verbose
       preLVMCommands preDeviceCommands postDeviceCommands postMountCommands preFailCommands kernelModules;
 
     resumeDevices = map (sd: if sd ? device then sd.device else "/dev/disk/by-label/${sd.label}")
@@ -565,6 +565,23 @@ in
       description = "Names of supported filesystem types in the initial ramdisk.";
     };
 
+    boot.initrd.verbose = mkOption {
+      default = true;
+      type = types.bool;
+      description =
+        ''
+          Verbosity of the initrd. Please note that disabling verbosity removes
+          only the mandatory messages generated by the NixOS scripts. For a
+          completely silent boot, you might also want to set the two following
+          configuration options:
+
+          <itemizedlist>
+            <listitem><para><literal>boot.consoleLogLevel = 0;</literal></para></listitem>
+            <listitem><para><literal>boot.kernelParams = [ "quiet" "udev.log_priority=3" ];</literal></para></listitem>
+          </itemizedlist>
+        '';
+    };
+
     boot.loader.supportsInitrdSecrets = mkOption
       { internal = true;
         default = false;