Bug 17854

Summary: initscripts clear the screen during boot, wiping away error messages
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Holger Schurig <h.schurig>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Description Holger Schurig 2000-09-26 12:37:00 UTC 
In /etc/inittab are the definitions to call mingetty. Unfortately mingetty
on console tty1 is called in a way so that it clears the screen. I had
several occassions where this prevented me from seing an error message.

I therefore suggest that you change

  1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingett tty1

to

  1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --noclear tty1
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-10-02 22:19:49 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1144 ***