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chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Stop the boot screen clearing

So, I switch on my desktop and watch the daemon name fly up the screen.  Then I notice that some of them are failing with a nice error message to help me.  Problem is they go so fast, and then the screen gets cleared for the login prompt, that I have no idea what they say.  There is nothing in any of the logs.  So, is there a way to stop the screen from clearing before giving the login prompt?

Cheers

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Desktop: AMD Athlon64 3800+ Venice Core, 2GB PC3200, 2x160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 2x320GB WD Caviar RE, Nvidia 6600GT 256MB
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ibrahim

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Registered: 2006-02-18

Posts: 53

Re: Stop the boot screen clearing

The wiki has this

chrismortimore

Member

From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: Stop the boot screen clearing

Cheers, I didn't find it when I looked.  And never thought to look in /etc/issue..

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Desktop: AMD Athlon64 3800+ Venice Core, 2GB PC3200, 2x160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10, 2x320GB WD Caviar RE, Nvidia 6600GT 256MB
Laptop: Intel Pentium M, 512MB PC2700, 60GB IBM TravelStar, Nvidia 5200Go 64MB

loserMcloser

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From: Canada

Registered: 2004-12-15

Posts: 130

Re: Stop the boot screen clearing

Another option is to comment out the line

c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/1 linux

in /etc/inittab -- this will prevent the first virtual console from displaying a login prompt. If you don't run runlevel 5, you'll need to hit alt-ctrl-F2 to login.