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

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

reQuiem23 wrote:
>
> Joshua Murphy-2 wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:48 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 :(
>>>
>>> Greetings,
>>> Niklas
>>>       
>> Make sure you have /dev/console and /dev/null in place ... it's needed
>> *before* /dev is mounted over with tmpfs for udev.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> can i just copy these from my existing setup? I'll try that, thanks for the
> hint
>
>   

You can copy those from where ever, CD, old install, it shouldn't
matter.  They just need to be there.

Dale

:-)  :-)