Re: Console clearing before login prompt

On 2011-12-07, Huge <Huge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2011-12-07, Tony Houghton <h@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There are some "failed!" messages in my boot sequence, but it's
difficult to read them properly because even if I disable gdm3 the
screen gets cleared on all consoles before displaying the login prompt.
How can I prevent it from clearing? It's a Debian unstable system. Or is
there some way to log the boot messages? ISTR trying something to do
that in the past but not having much success with it.

dmesg

dmesg | more, or dmesg | less.

Otherwise you only see the last few lines, the rest scroll by off the
screen
.

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