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 1LSyFw-0003cp-Nc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:38:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1BE55E03EE; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE284E03EE for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:38:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92D9164283 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:38:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.26 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.26 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.339, 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 zBREme3rvdSZ for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:38:09 +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 08C1864227 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LSyFj-0007Bx-U4 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:38:07 -0800 Message-ID: <21753124.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:38:07 -0800 (PST) From: reQuiem23 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 In-Reply-To: <21752851.post@talk.nabble.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> <1233336216.2842.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <21752851.post@talk.nabble.com> X-Archives-Salt: 86bd7809-e886-4412-9b20-ce4d06b7e3ab X-Archives-Hash: 24b290e93215cd14f2c19f834d6ae759 reQuiem23 wrote: > > > > 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? > Oh man, apparently i havent umounted the partition properly, for there is no single file on it... This is of course not going to work. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Gentoo-from-ext3-to-ext4-tp21750949p21753124.html Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.