From: robk@robpc4.robk-home.org   
      
   Ralph Spitzner  wrote:   
   > noel wrote on 8/2/21 4:36 PM:   
   > [...]   
   >> as for not scrolling back, you have that dumbfuck so called genius   
   >> torvalds to thank for that. had a boot issue once on a pentium, if I had   
   >> scrol back I'd see the obvious error and correct it, but no scrollback   
   >   
   > [...]   
   > I imagine it's a bit hard to do screen scrolling when the   
   > keyboard and video drivers (and all others) are dead/ haltet.   
   > would you prefer a windows like:   
   > KERNEL PANIC   
   > ERROR #DEADBEEF ?   
   >   
   >     -rasp   
      
   I think most of us would prefer the scrolling that was there for almost   
   thirty years.  It wasn't perfect, but it was better than nothing.   
      
   Back to the original topic, I have slackware-current running in a VM   
   as well.  The root filesystem is not ext2, so I can boot without the   
   initrd.  In there, I can create an ext2 filesystem in a file, mount   
   that, write to it, read from it,...  So, it looks like ext2 works   
   fine in that system.  Perhaps my problem on the netbook is really   
   with the initrd as I first thought, and the OP has something broken   
   in his system.  I can't duplicate his ext2 problems within the VM.   
      
   Rob Komar   
      
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