Richard wrote:
This works for redhat:
Edit innitab and put in --noclear as follows in the relevant line.
1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear
After bootup the screen is not cleared for login, you can then
use shift pageup to see all the bootup text. A trick I found
on the RH
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 09:48:13PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
True, but mingetty isn't the standard getty used by debian. The
standard getty doesn't clear the screen anyway. I'm not sure that the
--noclear switch even applies to it (--noclear is a mingetty switch). I
was referring to
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 09:48:13PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
True, but mingetty isn't the standard getty used by debian. The
standard getty doesn't clear the screen anyway. I'm not sure that the
--noclear switch even applies to it (--noclear is a mingetty
On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 10:09:14PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
I thought it was found to be possible to have the entry in init for
the startup scripts pipe the output in to tee, which can then write
it to both a file and the console? That should capture almost everything.
Robert Rati wrote:
Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg
doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks.
This comes up occasionally, and the answer is that, unfortunately, not
all of what is printed during boot-up is saved in logs.
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Ed
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This works for redhat:
Edit innitab and put in --noclear as follows in the relevant line.
1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear
After bootup the screen is not cleared for login, you can then
use shift pageup to see all the bootup text. A trick I found
on the RH list. (not tested it on
Yes, but this is not necessary on debian, cuz by default you can scroll back
all they way up to about 20-25 lines before lilo/whatever bootloader/kernel
starts filling the screen.
/Frock
This works for redhat:
Edit innitab and put in --noclear as follows in the relevant line.
Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg
doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks.
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On Fri, 24 Jul 1998, Robert Rati wrote:
Can someone tell me where all the information at startup is logged? Dmesg
doesn't show me enough of the info. Thanks.
see the files on /var/log
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