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

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@free.fr> 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 <robbat2@gentoo.org> +grub-0.97-r9.ebuild:
  Ext4 funtime for grub-0.97 series. Remember to reinstall it in your MBR.