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On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 10:30:19 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> Hello list, |
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> I see that the kernel code to scroll the console has been stripped out [1]. |
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> What do people use instead? |
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> This loss is a nuisance while installing a new system, as I am still trying |
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> to do on my old laptop. |
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> 1. https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/09/15/1824233&from=rss |
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A relief to see I'm not alone in experiencing this problem - I thought I had |
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misconfigured something on my systems. :-) |
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A way around it would be to use screen or tmux and use their internal buffer. |
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However, if you're already logged in a console and suddenly want to |
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Shift+PageUp, then it would be too late. This suggestion won't help if you |
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want to look at the rc scripts output as the system boots, but you can capture |
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these separately in syslog. |
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