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haimat

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Registered: 2014-02-02

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Can't disable the clearing of boot messages

I have just installed my first Arch Linux box, and it looks great so far. However, I don't like the default behaviour of clearing all boot messages before showing the login prompt. So I googled a bit and found this wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Di … t_messages

So I followed the steps listed there and rebooted, but the console is still cleared after booting up. I thought I might have mis-spelled the new folder in /etc, or something else, so I also tried to directly change the global service file. But this does not change anything either.

Any ideas what I might be missing here?

jpgg

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Registered: 2014-01-15

Posts: 43

Re: Can't disable the clearing of boot messages

What is your bootloader?

If you use GRUB, there is the 'quiet' kernel parameter that is by default in /boot/grub/grub.cfg. You can try to remove it to see if it solves your problem.

EDIT : Sorry, I read your post again and I realize this wasn't your problem.

Last edited by jpgg (2014-02-02 01:57:12)

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Re: Can't disable the clearing of boot messages

Can't help you with the screen-clearing problem (it's not something I do, or have any interest in), but if you want to know what's happened during the boot-up process, run

# journalctl -xb

It'll show all the background messages that have accumulated since the system last booted.

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rebootl

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Re: Can't disable the clearing of boot messages

The files under /etc/systemd/system override the ones from /usr/lib/systemd/system, so you should never have to edit those under /usr/lib/systemd/system. Probably it's a good idea to leave them untouched/clean. See the link in the wiki, "recommended way ...".

Are you sure you don't have any getty@.. _file_ under /etc/systemd/system/ or maybe under /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/ that is overriding your config ? (use "ls -l" to, also check where the symlinks are going)

(It works here, though I use slightly different config.)

Edit: I could try the exact wiki way later to see if it works here...

Edit2: Works!

(The other way I used was this (old wiki page): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=231059)

Last edited by rebootl (2014-02-02 15:08:17)

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