On Wednesday 28 October 2009 20:10:52 Maxim Wexler wrote:
> > Not sure this is related with the OP's problem, I have noticed that
on my
> > system I can scroll up in a console if it displays the output of a
> > command, e.g. ls, but I cannot scroll up on the boot messages. Also, I
> > cannot scroll up on the log messages on VT12. Is there something that I
> > need to set up in the kernel? In the old days (perhaps different
> > machine?) I used to be able to
> > scroll up in both.
> Also note, if you migrate away from the boot console and then come
> back, it may not scrollback at all. If I want to see what boot is
> doing I scroll back immediately before running startx or moving to
> another console.
Maxim (or anyone else):
do you know what causes scrollback to be disabled once you move to a
different terminal?
Amit
