On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:50:53 -0500
Eric Haszlakiewicz <erh@jodi.nimenees.com> wrote:

> 	normal?  That sounds like a bug to me.  I was thinking that I'd
> 	be able
> to let my machine boot normally, including start X, then be able to
> switch back to the text screen and see the boot messages.
> Why does the scroll back buffer get cleared?  Would it be hard to
> change that

There's always dmesg, /var/run/dmesg.boot and /var/log/ :) With
screen(1), I never found that such a scrolling buffer feature was
necessary, also.  Of course /dev/console is a special case which can get
kernel messages, but those are available in the dmesg buffer so are not
lost

Matt

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