On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs <celticmadman@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? There's a special character at the beginning of /etc/issue that clears
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@gmail.com> wrote: the screen. Try removing that.
The -i makes the contents of /etc/issue irrelevant. That's why I put in /etc/inittab, although it's not the best solution. Thanks J.A.