[ale] Leave boot messages

[Steve Litt]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 23:35:19 -0700

Ok, I need a brain reboot. In Debian, where is the config hiding that
clears the screen when the login prompt shows up? I want to leave all
the boot messages on screen instead of going to the clean login but I
can't remember the setting.

IIRC whether stuff gets erased before asking for the username is
governed by an argument to agetty or mgetty or getty or whatever getty
you're running.

SteveT

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[Jeff Jansen]

It's controlled by the GRUB bootloader. The location of the config file
depends on which version of grub you are running which in turn depends on
which version of debian you are running. You are probably running grub2 if
it's any recent version of debian.

The file is either "/boot/grub/menu.lst" for grub1 or "/etc/default/grub
for grub2". Remove the "quiet splash" items from the appropriate line(s) in
the config file. Then run "update-grub" to recreate the grub configuration
file.

HTH

Jeff

Ok, I need a brain reboot. In Debian, where is the config hiding that
clears the screen when the login prompt shows up? I want to leave all
the boot messages on screen instead of going to the clean login but I
can't remember the setting.
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