How can I prevent terminal boot messages from being cleared

[Tim]

Tim:
>> 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. 

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

I don't think it will.  In run level 5, the system will switch over from
console one to console seven, at some point.  When that happens, you
lose the scroll back on console one.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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