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 1LSwrj-0000XG-W5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:09:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8B9BCE0314; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com (yx-out-1718.google.com [74.125.44.155]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB57E0314 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:08:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 4so207272yxp.46 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:08:44 -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=WXHcyeDdU8MUGLFwWTA92u2gJu70VKumKc1sqtMJ4gs=; b=CnmfypMYdMjfv2B3eEIXkw9LDDsadL23Etpv8T4FGry38JJ7qveWNF09gBjw5JJVSI A1vwdsEuQLNcDJqWD1ErivjlOPw1nHx9wmEf7xWhfhwDag1qOQ5iYq193fCJMjaHupri mEtp0Lx12B19elRseK22RXGZmK4VA+0TosBJ4= 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=SBNE8hw2U6+552SMrv/HqLgotf173OJtP0r8WRXlb74wdWd++h55a88XzwHc1jzChi JpAgZcbACdr6BYDbZn7gZXMrlOhZpGektXG/EFmS3EwVfPfGD0BddElBLogKXzZW5/1O 9/ykkr0KZxG7Uts4o/7t5hIEMAa1sBVgQIRfE= 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 10.150.135.2 with SMTP id i2mr1372153ybd.162.1233335324175; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:08:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <21751280.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> <58965d8a0901300853m76eb7071u7b1dacc822b31639@mail.gmail.com> <21751280.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:08:44 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cb30e9145a2e4231 Message-ID: <58965d8a0901300908y1f30a60aiadd80d6b8e622b97@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: 9e8363d6-6b27-481e-b5fc-801414f88e4d X-Archives-Hash: 98237a290610302cff032387c2508f7c On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, reQuiem23 wrote: > > > > Paul Hartman-3 wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> >> > > I actually have that parameter on the kernel command line. I'll check my > grub version, though, thank you. Be sure to re-install grub to MBR as well. Just emerging it won't be good enough.