Re: [arch-general] startup messages gone

FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now).

Yes, that's really the point. Clearing or not the terminal, depending on the flag, seems the proper way to do it, rather than editing /etc/issue.

Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot

Thanks. Jorge