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From: reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:23:20 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21752851.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1233336216.2842.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>




Albert Hopkins-4 wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, 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. 
> 
> Yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that.  There are 'skeleton'
> copies of /dev/ files in your root partition before udev kicks in and
> those files are needed by the boot process (e.g. /dev/console).
> 
> What I recommend doing is:
>       * boot into a livecd/usbstick
>       * mount your root partition (ro) somewhere (e.g. /tmp/root
>       * mount your empty destination partition somewhere
>         (e.g. /tmp/newroot)
>       * copy the files over to the new ext4 partition in whatever manner
>       * reconfigure new fstab, grub.conf, etc and reboot.
> 
> For livecd/usb I always use RipLinux.  The latest version supports ext4
> and has both 32- and 64-bit kernels.
> 
> 
> 
> 

I did it exactly the way you recommended, but i still get an error, even
though it's another one than before:

Kernel: Unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to
kernel.

An idea?
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-30 16:48 [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 reQuiem23
2009-01-30 16:52 ` Rodolphe Rocca
2009-01-30 16:57   ` reQuiem23
2009-01-30 17:05     ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-30 17:13     ` Graham Murray
2009-01-30 17:19       ` reQuiem23
2009-01-30 17:04   ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-30 17:31     ` Rodolphe Rocca
2009-01-30 16:53 ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-30 17:04   ` reQuiem23
2009-01-30 17:08     ` Paul Hartman
2009-01-30 17:16       ` reQuiem23
2009-01-30 16:57 ` Joshua Murphy
2009-01-30 17:04   ` reQuiem23
2009-01-30 17:22     ` Dale
2009-01-30 17:23 ` Albert Hopkins
2009-01-30 18:23   ` reQuiem23 [this message]
2009-01-30 18:38     ` reQuiem23
2009-01-30 18:38     ` Saphirus Sage
2009-01-30 18:53       ` reQuiem23
2009-01-30 19:20         ` Paul Hartman

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