Making silent boot persist with systemd-boot

[klv]

I’m one of those who decided to try out systemd-boot after the grub situation. I would like to turn off the systemd output during startup. Arch wiki suggests adding the quiet kernel parameter to the options line in /efi/loader/entries/*.conf files. The problem is that these loader entries get overwritten every time there is a kernel update. Loader entries seem to be generated by the kernel-install-mkinitcpio package. Looking at its source code here, it seems that boot options for the loader entries are taken from a file called /etc/kernel/cmdline:

if [[ -f /etc/kernel/cmdline ]]; then
    read -r -d '' -a BOOT_OPTIONS < /etc/kernel/cmdline

Is adding the quiet parameter to this file the correct way to make silent boot persist after kernel updates? Or is there some other way to achieve this?

[dalto]

@klv

Is adding the quiet parameter to this file the correct way to make silent boot persist after kernel updates?

Yes. If you are using kernel-install, modifying /etc/kernel/cmdline is one easy way to make the change persistent.

That should be described in the tutorial in a bit more detail. If it isn’t, let me know and I will update it.

[klv]

Thanks!