Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

[reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@gmail.com>]

Paul Hartman-3 wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@gmail.com>
> 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 :(
> 
> Don't know if it is related, but for me I had to put rootfstype=ext4
> on the kernel commandline. Also make sure you're using
> sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9, I know it has ext4 support.
> 
> 
> 

I actually have that parameter on the kernel command line. I'll check my
grub version, though, thank you.
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