How can I prevent terminal boot messages from being cleared

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 17:24 +0930, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
> >> 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. 
> 
> Matthew Saltzman:
> > It should work in runlevel 5 if you turn off rhgb on the kernel line
> > in grub.conf. 
> 
> I don't think it will.  In run level 5, the system will switch over from
> console one to console seven, at some point.  When that happens, you
> lose the scroll back on console one.

I thought I recalled actually doing it that way, but it was long ago and
I could be wrong.

> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

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