How can I prevent terminal boot messages from being cleared

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 12:57 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Dean S. Messing: 
> >> In the past I've added "-- noclear" to the tty lines in
> >> /etc/inittab like this:
> >> 
> >> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 -- noclear tty1 
> 
> Tim: 
> > Is your problem simply that you've got a space between -- and the
> > noclear parameter?  Try it with:  --noclear
> 
> I decided to try it now, changing the first line to be like the
> following example stopped it clearing, but I can't scroll back if I let
> it boot up graphically and it switches screens over.  If I boot up in
> run level three it'll stay on that screen, and I can scroll back.
> 
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear
> 
> I did that just to the first mingetty line, that's the console that
> shows the boot messages. 

It should work in runlevel 5 if you turn off rhgb on the kernel line in
grub.conf.


> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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