progress messages

[Stuart J. Browne]

> > > Thank you both for the helpful feedback.
> > > 
> > > My post section does a number of things before ever letting 
> > > the system boot. My desire was to see some progress messages
> > > on the console while that process was working.  Such as
> > > "reached point x", "reached point y".  The display of them to
> > > "/dev/console" wasn't very pretty and attempts to clean it 
> > > up hasn't provensuccessful.  Was hoping someone has also done
> > > this and found a way to have lines
> > > of text display neatly.
> > 
> > Not exactly the same, but similar; in my %pre section I make an NFS 
> > mount and then run a script from the mount.  Verbiage in that 
> > script is 
> > simply echoed out:
> > echo "blah blah"
> > and this appears on VC3, with proper cr/lf.  Hope this helps,
> 
> Thank you.  I'll give that a try.

You could always 'chvt', or just echo to a specific tty.. i.e.

echo "blah blah" > /dev/ttyX

or

chvt X
echo "blah blah"


Stuart