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RH8 and boot-up messages

Newsgroups:  comp.os.linux.setup
Date:        Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:37:31 -0400

I'm wondering how to preserve the last part of boot-up messages in RH8.

Back to RH6.2, all boot-up messages are preserved on console on boot. I can scroll several pages back to refer to them. But since RH7, RedHat started to clear screen before showing the login prompt. This has created a great headache to me. All my customized settings are near to bottom of the boot-up messages, and many times, I can see there were errors, but the helpful error messages are cleared away right afterward by "friendly" RedHat.

Most of those error messages are not in dmesg. How can I preserve them?

RH8 and boot-up messages

> I'm wondering how to preserve the last part of boot-up messages in RH8.

/var/log/boot.log ?

Eric Moors