On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 17:24 +0930, Tim wrote: > 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. I thought I recalled actually doing it that way, but it was long ago and I could be wrong. > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs