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Hylotl

Member

Registered: 2013-09-22

Posts: 1

Preserving Boot Messages

I really liked the console preview at systemd's homepage and i wonder if i can achieve the same thing on Arch.
I edited the getty@tty1 service file like shown here and here but it only preserves a part of the output, and i can't Shift+PgUp it.

Currently my screen goes like this:
    1) Syslinux 4.07
    2) Beggining of the Boot Messages ([ OK ] this, [ OK ] that)
    3) Screen goes blank for 1 second (and apparently clears the console)
    4) The remaining Boot Messages, /etc/issue and login prompt appear with the vconsole.conf font

I did some reading on the wiki about the Arch/systemd Boot process but i got no clue about what happens at step 3.

Anyone knows how may i preserve all the messages? thanks

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Preserving Boot Messages

KMS kicks in, sets the font & clears the console. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=168036
Maybe the screenshot is from a computer that uses different hardware e.g. nvidia graphics card using the proprietary nvidia driver. It doesn't use KMS.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=169064