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


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