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 1LSx57-0002V1-SW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:23:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7AE00E036E; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com (mail-qy0-f20.google.com [209.85.221.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48437E036E for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:23:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so1015486qyk.10 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:23:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KraJiOU+NZwL2x6IL8/xCIihP2vnvaHKy3mzNNAcKbw=; b=UGEVXvBMzdSoSNi+W2OPHLD+cJ9gDqx5FkF1WfdKfZxvPOpbY1EpT6swcnqV68PNun Lbi2iDUsP2NAFyGPa403kip2JnkXem7GjPkpH8CzTvHpO15ve8RDfr/DRhsBcGEgKUzs iaVDU4YKn5taZehv0qusXwF2gwdBJy0PcKtmA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Oi4fDZ+u0ljyw58LUT4T0fyO1BRjme9AHPC4UDd6+rCCcVxoEU4Lq3Z4Biq9cjQQNZ E3aJpCO1m+Dg055zBu/qzGB6dGADFOOwyjg7InNE9OEqIlQRTpfEu2IucFsFEEPX9Fjl b5TdsoSrmjx4JKnwP2KYrwxaBZqsVRRK9Rbrk= Received: by 10.229.94.149 with SMTP id z21mr1077735qcm.50.1233336182598; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.230.105.250? (dialup-4.230.105.250.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.230.105.250]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm3739578ywn.57.2009.01.30.09.23.00 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:23:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49833771.1010203@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:22:57 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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> <21751259.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <21751259.post@talk.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e9d538f7-3ee5-4307-9300-617ddb592621 X-Archives-Hash: af953cf9cf9fc16423bc3deb3c8c2e29 reQuiem23 wrote: > > Joshua Murphy-2 wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:48 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 :( >>> >>> 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 :-) :-)