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

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

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:57 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Rodolphe Rocca-2 wrote:
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>> 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
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> yeah, but my /boot is still ext3 and grub IS actually loading the system, it
> even runs uvesafb. or is grub even incompatible with ext4 root-filesystems?
> i thought this was entirely handled by the kernel.

I have ext4 root filesystem on 2 machines running gentoo & grub and
it's working fine. Don't give up :)