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 1LSwdB-00068b-49 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:54:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EB0F1E0407; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2133E0407 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:53:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so204236ywm.46 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:53:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zCAgkWHTjIqw3OYuJeJJ9KDL9vevckQcHEl6vsskk4M=; b=KIlA6L1st2/WBgQeCIJW1U/uOJ7ac1PrSOUcEReY7dDWNjaAMM0apSyQLsIuiXGsnE W8XU9tS27UGDSQm95TVpr/qaswLfA2DrLnOUDyynVleq1j+WOZW6tXL3mAFvQUkdhehU H4nF5uPvj+mXyUd83fGqYihLCXnb5ny+sX/Pk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=FX9c9HB85IGs1dDOEfZLBzeoiakd7yGW6WfcfA4P1ZvJcJ1f2eXxJ4YswRFlfE4Nb3 1kP6+sHUckys/eqmY3L8xeenwQ5hN+G69H6+obmp19RjNPMGpjS2vImCYBTyoZfNTlW+ kynDOClv5IZDw7xxCq+deC3F6zU2p7uibPXVU= 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.151.39.2 with SMTP id r2mr1387879ybj.0.1233334410472; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:53:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:53:30 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 95ac283206c15229 Message-ID: <58965d8a0901300853m76eb7071u7b1dacc822b31639@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 04baa6f7-3a37-456d-a952-66495215fed8 X-Archives-Hash: 9921f142fb50aa4acbe77a6ae6d34826 On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 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 :( Don't know if it is related, but for me I had to put rootfstype=ext4 on the kernel commandline. Also make sure you're using sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9, I know it has ext4 support.