Dean Messing wrote: : John Summerfield wrote: : : <snip> : : fwiw --clear works here for F7, no updates. : : : John, are you sure "--clear" _prevents_ clearing on your system. : I just replaced the "-- noclear" strings in my /etc/inittab with : "--clear" (note the removal of the space) and now I get a long list of : : /sbin/mingety: unrecognized option `--clear' : /sbin/mingety: unrecognized option `--clear' : /sbin/mingety: unrecognized option `--clear' : /sbin/mingety: unrecognized option `--clear' : : at the end of the boot process. John, the above is clap-trap, for which I apologise. Your suggestion (with --noclear in place of --clear) works just fine. I evidently had two errors in my syntax. Removing the space in "-- noclear" tickled the other error. Please see my post with (SOLVED) in the title. Dean -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list