From: tommyg@dsl.pipex.com   
      
   On 04/08/2021 03:50, noel wrote:   
   > On Tue, 03 Aug 2021 11:25:10 -0400, Robert Komar wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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   
   >   
   > current kernels dont like ext2, plain and simple   
   >   
   > I pulled an ol toshiba usb drive out from storage since I knew it was   
   > ext2, nope, stack errors and killed at every first attempt...   
   >   
   > converted it to ext4,   
   >   
   >   tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index,has_journal /dev/sdf1   
   >   
   > and voila! no errors, so its just ext2 theyve rooted up   
   >   
   > way to go linus...   
   >   
   > (im not gonna sift through 10K trolls on LKML to see if its been brought   
   > up there yet.)   
   >   
   > (I didnt see mr spitzers post, I didnt miss anything, my troll filters   
   > seem to be working well)   
   >   
   Thanks for this. I was beginning to think it was just me. I have   
   reverted back to kernel 5.12.16-smp and all is OK.   
      
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