Bug#22474: acknowledged by developer (boot floppies wish)
In message <87sod6eew6.fsf@kc.net> you wrote:
>Ok, here's the problem: When linux boots, it prints out all kinds of
>interesting info about the hardware on your system, right? And you can look
>at all of it by using Shift-PgUp, etc.
>
>Now, when I boot with a Debian boot floppy, after it boots up, the first thing
>it does is put a big "welcome to debian" display on the screen (or maybe it's
>a "choose monochrome or color" dialog). Anyway, the important thing is that
>everything on the screen at that moment (i.e., the last 24 or whatever lines
>of boot messages) gets overwritten, and is lost forever, unless the user
>happens to know about the 'dmesg' command. This is bad, or at least, very
>annoying.
>
>A simple half-assed solution would be to print 24 blank lines right before
>starting the boot floppy script that erases the screen. That way, the boot
>messages scroll off the top, and are therefore recoverable by hitting
>Shift-PgUp. (An even better solution would be to scroll n lines, where n is
>the height of the user's console, if that number can be determined.)
>
>Make sense?
>
>This isn't that big a deal, but the fix is so easy it seems a shame not to do
>it.
Mike, I can't argue with that. I've reopened the bug.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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