How can I prevent terminal boot messages from being cleared

[Tim]

Dean S. Messing: 
>> In the past I've added "-- noclear" to the tty lines in
>> /etc/inittab like this:
>> 
>> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1 -- noclear tty1 

Tim: 
> Is your problem simply that you've got a space between -- and the
> noclear parameter?  Try it with:  --noclear

I decided to try it now, changing the first line to be like the
following example stopped it clearing, but I can't scroll back if I let
it boot up graphically and it switches screens over.  If I boot up in
run level three it'll stay on that screen, and I can scroll back.

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.

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