How can I prevent terminal boot messages from being cleared

[John Summerfield]

Dean S. Messing wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
> : > Karl Larsen wrote:
> : >    Hi Dean have you looked at dmesg? I do and it seems to have all that 
> : > you want to see and you can call it any time you desire.
> : 
> : How do you know what Dean wants to see? There's more than just kernel 
> : messages on view.
> 
> Poor Karl.  He's gotten a (well deserved :-) beating today, hasn't he.
> 
> Karl, for your information, the following lines are a snippet of
> some info that appears during the boot process but does not appear
> anywhere in the output `dmesg', or in /var/log/{dmesg,messages}.
> 
> Waiting for driver initialization.
> Loading dm-mod.ko module
> device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel at redhat.com
> Loading dm-mirror.ko module
> Loading dm-zero.ko module
> Loading dm-snapshopt.ko module
> Making device-mapper control node
> Scanning logical volumes
>   Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a while...
>   Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2
>   Found volume group "vg01" using metadata type lvm2
> Activating logical volumes
>   1 logical volume(s) in volume group "vg01" now active
> Trying to resume from LABEL-SWAP-sda1
> No suspend signature on swap, not resuming.
> Creating root device.
> Mounting root filesystem.
> 
> : fwiw --clear works here for F7, no updates.
> 
> 
> John, are you sure "--clear" _prevents_ clearing on your system.
> I just replaced  the "-- noclear" strings in my /etc/inittab with
> "--clear" (note the removal of the space) and now I get a long list of
I can't read my own typeing:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1

Let's be easy on Karl for a moment, he was trying to help, and we've 
both demonsrated we can be twits.


But just for a moment;-)


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John

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