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 1LSwbC-0005as-Mh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:52:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BA32E0398; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:52:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhuumrelay2.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net (dhuumrelay2.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net [194.139.33.76]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10590E0398 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.155.100.129] ([212.157.248.76]) by dhuumrelay2.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n0UGq7P4000375 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:52:07 GMT X-Authenticated-As: none Message-ID: <49833037.5010706@free.fr> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:52:07 +0100 From: Rodolphe Rocca User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 References: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 823d48c2-ef14-412a-98db-a3e2eedb57b2 X-Archives-Hash: 0c3dabbff2494216053bce4c18b8a13e 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 > grub is not compatible with ext4