Tim wrote: : 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. Yes, Tim, the space is one problem. The fact the "tty1" appears twice is another. The correct line is: 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1 I must be asleep to have not caught the double "tty1". Thanks. Dean
