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 1LSwnx-0007xM-0Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:05:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA8B6E0439; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:04:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91BC2E0439 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:04:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307CF64521 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:04:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.696 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.696 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.903, 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 ClBq11l-CiD9 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:04:05 +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 07D82644D0 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LSwmi-00030b-8j for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:04:04 -0800 Message-ID: <21751259.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:04:04 -0800 (PST) From: reQuiem23 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 In-Reply-To: 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> X-Archives-Salt: 65b38824-22f3-4e5d-834d-be2423e1ae55 X-Archives-Hash: 4daf001a031ded5da88d5767c12382d1 Joshua Murphy-2 wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM, 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 > > Make sure you have /dev/console and /dev/null in place ... it's needed > *before* /dev is mounted over with tmpfs for udev. > > can i just copy these from my existing setup? I'll try that, thanks for the hint -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Gentoo-from-ext3-to-ext4-tp21750949p21751259.html Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.