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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Jason Castonguay wrote:

> Hello everyone.
> 
> I apologize if this question has been asked before, but it appears that
> Lilo clears the screen at its prompt.  I want it not to clear the screen
> so that when I get to Linux's login prompt, I can push shift-page-up to go
> back and see some of the stuff the CMOS puts on the screen before a system
> actually boots.  

Comment out or remove the "message" line in /etc/lilo.conf and re-run lilo.


Nicolas