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 1LSwpG-0008P5-51 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:06:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3D9E1E044C; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C189E044C for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFDE36445D for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:05:06 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.921 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.921 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.678, 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 hMQPcRFDUonZ for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:05:00 +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 169A4644B3 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:05:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LSwnb-00032n-H5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:04:59 -0800 Message-ID: <21751280.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:04:59 -0800 (PST) From: reQuiem23 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0901300853m76eb7071u7b1dacc822b31639@mail.gmail.com> 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> <58965d8a0901300853m76eb7071u7b1dacc822b31639@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9f7bd21e-9a46-47ce-9596-a0549b551756 X-Archives-Hash: 572d71e2934fd2c919c4e87e300c7ecc Paul Hartman-3 wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 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 :( > > 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. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Gentoo-from-ext3-to-ext4-tp21750949p21751280.html Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.