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