Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Feb 2003 18:06:39 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: possible partition corruption |
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Thomas Molina <tmolina@cox.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > I couldn't immediately see the reason for this. You have your whole input > > layer configured as a module, perhaps that has upset things. > > > > I suggest that you work on the config settings and find out what it is that > > is causing the tty layer to not come up. > > OK, Hold the phone Susan, and stamp IDIOT on my forehead. The erason for > not getting any output on the console was that I had configured the kernel > without support for virtual terminals or console on virtual terminals. > Once I configured that correctly, things worked. Duh!
Yes, but you had CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y.
> The thing I don't understand is why would not having that configured in > give me the lost journal and an inability to boot and mount the root > partition when I booted back into a "normal" kernel.
Don't know. It didn't do that when I tested it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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