From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSwhQ-0006nV-4R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:58:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 58FC7E0341; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:57:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34305E0341 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:57:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07BD4643BD for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:57:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.244 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.244 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.355, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id WwA92S6iCJGn for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:57:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kuber.nabble.com (kuber.nabble.com [216.139.236.158]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF2F64557 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:57:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LSwgG-0002VL-A9 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:57:24 -0800 Message-ID: <21751136.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:57:24 -0800 (PST) From: reQuiem23 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 In-Reply-To: <49833037.5010706@free.fr> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: niklas.baumstark@gmail.com References: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> <49833037.5010706@free.fr> X-Archives-Salt: 4b9f0d64-7dd5-4a05-b9ca-0666dba35d63 X-Archives-Hash: 5b63ae7c67c62c39d52b9b958af70558 Rodolphe Rocca-2 wrote: > > reQuiem23 wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy >> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, >> add >> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot >> is >> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i use >> is >> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i want >> to >> boot into my new system, the system starts, even the uvesafb starts, but >> than the booting process stops with a message like "tty starting" and the >> system reboots. >> >> I removed all the files in /proc /dev and /sys, so probably this could be >> the cause of the problem. Or does anyone have an idea what could be the >> problematic factor here? unfortunately i can't provide any logging >> information because i can't get to a working shell :( >> >> Greetings, >> Niklas >> > grub is not compatible with ext4 > > yeah, but my /boot is still ext3 and grub IS actually loading the system, it even runs uvesafb. or is grub even incompatible with ext4 root-filesystems? i thought this was entirely handled by the kernel. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Gentoo-from-ext3-to-ext4-tp21750949p21751136.html Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.