How can I prevent terminal boot messages from being cleared

[Tim]

On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 17:29 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote:
> In the past I've added "-- noclear" to the tty lines in
> /etc/inittab like this:
> 
> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 -- noclear tty1 

Is your problem simply that you've got a space between -- and the
noclear parameter?  Try it with:  --noclear

I'll have a go at this later, I don't want to reboot now, and I want to
try something similar myself.  It's been quite a pain that the boot.log
hasn't been usable for a few releases.

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2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386

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