On Wed, Mar 07, 2012, Nick Holland wrote: > On 03/07/12 18:32, Marc Espie wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:10:12AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: >>> yes, scrollback is something that was sacrificed on the installer to >>> keep it able to fit on a floppy (contrary to another contribution to >>> this thread). Unfortunate, annoying, and unfortunately, I got no >>> better ideas. >> >> Is it true for all images ? I figure the ramdisk_cd and bsd.rd images >> probably have room enough for console scrollback, don't they ? > > It's true for all images install images, yes. > (and that's for i386, amd64. Most other platforms don't have any kind > of scrollback at all). > > I would guess bsd.rd would have space, if the scrollback were to be > separated out. Without looking (i.e., I'm about to make a fool of > myself), I think it is part of the "option SMALL_KERNEL", so to put it > in bsd.rd (=cd ramdisk) would require breaking out the code...not sure > how that would go over.
SCROLLBACK_SUPPORT (the actual relevant option) is typically only defined if not SMALL_KERNEL, though you could add it as an option on its own.
