Stop the boot screen clearing

So, I switch on my desktop and watch the daemon name fly up the screen. Then I notice that some of them are failing with a nice error message to help me. Problem is they go so fast, and then the screen gets cleared for the login prompt, that I have no idea what they say. There is nothing in any of the logs. So, is there a way to stop the screen from clearing before giving the login prompt?
Cheers

Another option is to comment out the line
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 vc/1 linux
in /etc/inittab -- this will prevent the first virtual console from displaying a login prompt. If you don't run runlevel 5, you'll need to hit alt-ctrl-F2 to login.

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