Kernel shows taint 512 when quiet boot enabled
Issue
When booting up systems with quiet mode enabled in BIOS. The kernel may report that the Kernel is tainted: When 'cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted' is run. The kernel Taint value 512 .
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
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