On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:29:04 -0600 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Grant Edwards > <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > But, in the failures I've been seeing today, it's not getting to > > agetty. The "clear screen and halt" happens at the "waiting for udev > > events" step... > > FWIW I have also noticed on my machine that somewhere in the middle of > the OpenRC boot process, the screen gets cleared. Haven't completely > tracked it down yet. In /etc/inittab you need to change stuff like this c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux to this c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux --noclear There's a clear elog about this at the end of the util-linux emerge, perhaps you missed it > > You can enable logging in your rc.conf to log all of the openrc > output, that might help you see what was on-screen before it got > cleared away. You also might be able to enable interactive mode and go > through it step-by-step to see what's happening in real-time at your > own pace. > -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com