How can I prevent terminal boot messages from being cleared

Matthew Saltzman mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Fri Oct 19 18:33:11 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 09:45 -0700, dreeser2-store at yahoo.com wrote:
> I have wondered about this for a long time. Thanks
> for what you have provided. 
> However; After putting in --noclear, it was stated
> that you could scroll the terminal to see the
> messages. I haven't been able to figure out how to do
> that. Could you give instructions. I am a screen
> farther than I used to be but would like to go back
> further, if possible.
>  As a follow on, is there a way to freeze or print the
> bios messages that come up during boot describing the
> discs?
>  I tried pushing the "PrintScr" button and either
> nothing happened or I don't know where to look for the
> output.
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> 

<shift>-PgUp and <shift>-PgDn I believe.

> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs




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