[ale] Caldera startup screen

[Clay Lawrence]

I good illustration of why I dumped Caldera and went back to SuSE.
Caldera went overboard with this one and strayed a little to far off
course with the standard config files.

Clay

Gary S. Mackay wrote:
> 
> How do I get rid of this stupid startup screen? I installed 2.2 just fine.
> Then I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.12 and rebooted. Everything is just fine
> except that I can not use the main console. I can telnet in and work OK. I can
> ca-f7 and get the kde login and then go to an xterm, but no matter what I do,
> I can not get a clean screen in text mode. (I did change the inittab to 3
> instead of 5, so it would boot text). It still starts up with the Caldera init
> screen, shows boot:, then loading kernel and displays about a dozen dots, then
> nothing. I now it completes booting because I can log in as root (using the
> hard drive chatter to let me know where I am), I just can't see what I'm
> typing.
> 
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