On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 17:29 -0700, Dean S. Messing wrote: > In the past I've added "-- noclear" to the tty lines in > /etc/inittab like this: > > 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 -- noclear tty1 Is your problem simply that you've got a space between -- and the noclear parameter? Try it with: --noclear I'll have a go at this later, I don't want to reboot now, and I want to try something similar myself. It's been quite a pain that the boot.log hasn't been usable for a few releases. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.