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 1LSwqO-0000F0-J5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:07:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 98317E0464; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f13.google.com (mail-gx0-f13.google.com [209.85.217.13]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6743AE0464 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:05:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk6 with SMTP id 6so12246gxk.10 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:05:42 -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=JS9KAdZrcMzalj/q7wsidaipMJa9PCDu5GYT4i77XMY=; b=hT3McIuFLDA3zn51tWGihh6NAo4gq+C/+X6gMsm++18yLjT8WPxsg61CJuFgSkvwBY btlzNOlr3alD+qHpAywuZHlusrd/CbB1J5IN8MLpBQgxWfHO/jog1XrR/WX8PuHkmoyv Ylz2nQnYcQm+55iV799TyvhNS1NT3cKT8dxdY= 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=i+OmDlEin13yKFkZWgMYkqCgEXaDVjSH6eheI+Cavs/ks8v413T2SV+UHAyq+WOq4a 3E5z48Ux5KwFri5qovF/KkoNq68z3PkuxcWckgZpTnx7Gq9pjwwLW+Ft6kvquxCPDWXU bAAKS0knOZMymcMb4FWQtdgM4F6UCXDGqR+pM= 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 10.151.50.11 with SMTP id c11mr352853ybk.7.1233335141989; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:05:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <21751136.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> <49833037.5010706@free.fr> <21751136.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:05:41 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 61b893f775ca2bc0 Message-ID: <58965d8a0901300905p6c10032by4a8edd3707c3d4c3@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: d00598d1-33cb-41bf-b30a-50cbdceba5a9 X-Archives-Hash: 087ed3be0d1893f7f0b4fb166f055e3f On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:57 AM, reQuiem23 wrote: > > > > Rodolphe Rocca-2 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 >> >> > > > 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 :)