Tim: >> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 --noclear >> >> I did that just to the first mingetty line, that's the console that >> shows the boot messages. Matthew Saltzman: > It should work in runlevel 5 if you turn off rhgb on the kernel line > in grub.conf. I don't think it will. In run level 5, the system will switch over from console one to console seven, at some point. When that happens, you lose the scroll back on console one. -- [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.