27 Sep
2011
27 Sep
'11
10:09 a.m.
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.
~Celti
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disable_Clearing_of_Boot_Messages