On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs <celticmadman@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote:
There has been some recent change somewhere in the startup process that makes startup messages disappear once the process is completed and the login prompt appears. I had (and have) in /etc/initttab:
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux
I added the "-i" to prevent clearing the terminal, and it worked. Not any more. Not even with Shift+PageUp. Anyone knows what changed?
TIA
Jorge Almeida
There's a special character at the beginning of /etc/issue that clears the screen. Try removing that.
FYI: All the special characters in /etc/issue will go away in the next filesystems release (as agetty deals with it now). Also, if you want to see what happened during boot, there is /var/log/boot Cheers, Tom