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 1LSxDK-0003U3-F0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:31:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74093E028D; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:31:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhuumrelay3.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net (dhuumrelay3.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net [194.139.33.96]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25943E028D for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:31:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.155.100.129] ([212.157.248.76]) by dhuumrelay3.dtm.ops.eu.uu.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id n0UHVURY016692 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:31:31 GMT X-Authenticated-As: none Message-ID: <49833972.407@free.fr> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:31:30 +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> <49833037.5010706@free.fr> <58965d8a0901300904v512f9473occ21fc679c04ed38@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0901300904v512f9473occ21fc679c04ed38@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 89baa793-5ab6-4b37-9746-a28637bdbad5 X-Archives-Hash: a6d2430a4a81dc795579655ff621c88e Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rodolphe Rocca wrote: > >> 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 >> > > # ChangeLog for sys-boot/grub > # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/grub/ChangeLog,v 1.110 > 2009/01/02 01:51:05 robbat2 Exp $ > > *grub-0.97-r9 (02 Jan 2009) > > 02 Jan 2009; Robin H. Johnson +grub-0.97-r9.ebuild: > Ext4 funtime for grub-0.97 series. Remember to reinstall it in your MBR. > Great. Last time I checked was... probably before jan, the 2th ;-)