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 1LSwmj-0007mL-4f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:04:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4C5CE02C7; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:04:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86230E02C7 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:04:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so206174yxp.46 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:04:02 -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=isRGgoklnvnIMZM8N7/pw/0CoZfQkanbtnWT2x1WAPQ=; b=Zm2gDySr+TKESVadU95vdJCEQoMTrrdbZFede50r9mKoptvNduHrShq92kKOdShd0r fe2puuzfP4TWMTSHeVoKYc9bof/RSN1RDFjwkxemOqVwuc4pvYNHENt5SCzgbyJvg8rS JYBZSs1CJ5xvuoGxXH+BM1CZmAOHh4X2MtyJ4= 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=mv8Vhqwc3e76g+q+at3+DHn2SOYLZ6fs+ppjbzIs8iqyxZx3GGC0rDk2RZa2e12bQ+ 7AHReqE/X4fDTFXNz0+dtgVMeV2+z6NMePD0iRax9sYkj3C5UA8bplufZhpgBTRJLBS0 pFfU8BPMIJ3VZOB1xWojd7acEpcDDCCEPk3ZU= 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 10.151.103.11 with SMTP id f11mr1390584ybm.21.1233335042232; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:04:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49833037.5010706@free.fr> References: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> <49833037.5010706@free.fr> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:04:02 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: fda3edd75bd361aa Message-ID: <58965d8a0901300904v512f9473occ21fc679c04ed38@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: 916a0aa2-0aae-444c-86fd-5d027fb5192a X-Archives-Hash: df3593344d51d0f8e6af0ad34b6cb3cf 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.