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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 18:06:39 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Thomas Molina <tmolina@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: possible partition corruption
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Thomas Molina <tmolina@cox.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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