On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:38:01 GMT Michael wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:30:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I see that the kernel code to scroll the console has been stripped out > > [1]. What do people use instead? > > > > This loss is a nuisance while installing a new system, as I am still > > trying to do on my old laptop. > > > > 1. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/09/15/1824233&from=rss > > A relief to see I'm not alone in experiencing this problem - I thought I had > misconfigured something on my systems. :-) > > A way around it would be to use screen or tmux and use their internal > buffer. However, if you're already logged in a console and suddenly want to > Shift+PageUp, then it would be too late. This suggestion won't help if you > want to look at the rc scripts output as the system boots, but you can > capture these separately in syslog.
It's a pain in the neck while trying to emerge a base system and being thrown scores of lines of reasons why it can't be done, with the prime cause long gone. I tried using "| tee 2>&1 > /tmp/file" and then viewing the file on another vTTY, but there ought to be a neater way. -- Regards, Peter.
