On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 12:57 +0930, Tim wrote: > Dean S. Messing: > >> In the past I've added "-- noclear" to the tty lines in > >> /etc/inittab like this: > >> > >> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 -- noclear tty1 > > Tim: > > Is your problem simply that you've got a space between -- and the > > noclear parameter? Try it with: --noclear > > I decided to try it now, changing the first line to be like the > following example stopped it clearing, but I can't scroll back if I let > it boot up graphically and it switches screens over. If I boot up in > run level three it'll stay on that screen, and I can scroll back. > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear > > I did that just to the first mingetty line, that's the console that > shows the boot messages. It should work in runlevel 5 if you turn off rhgb on the kernel line in grub.conf. > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list