[arch-general] startup messages gone

[Tom Gundersen]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Burroughs
<celticmadman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 00:33, Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida at 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