How can I prevent terminal boot messages from being cleared

[Karl Larsen]

Dean S. Messing wrote:
> When booting gets to the end, just before issuing "login",
> the screen is cleared.  I'd like to prevent this so I can read
> the boot messages.
>
> I'm running a stock F7 system w/ updates.  My GRUB boot
> stanza is adjusted to show boot messages directly on the VT
> (no spash screen).
>
> In the past I've added "-- noclear" to the tty lines in
> /etc/inittab like this:
>
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 -- noclear tty1
>
> This doesn't seem to work anymore.  How is this done in F7?
>
>
> Dean
>
>   
    Hi Dean have you looked at dmesg? I do and it seems to have all that 
you want to see and you can call it any time you desire.



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