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 1LSwgB-0006fv-Cf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:57:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A63DE031E; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:57:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648A6E0320 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:57:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id b25so235827elf.1 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:57:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cWm47Szkab1zDPlVMg1wcCK12S+DvVaAxaq5/ziZpdE=; b=QD+71p+Snoa8KBRYGBgDAUF46SedBn7nl9CWnxTyMlh/ISnkwAAqcFRJyZye28PRxE vIBYp6eaBNFjFubAhtw4lcsevhidIUs7XxYMB6LVmwt+JGOox4ZeG75A4yZLTZjuT4Ra wwxH/0A6r+2vZEa6LaAkUNwVhgp3VOcPYLDC8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RLlLAVpOB/nXxT9eJ/CEFgd04wbjGAOnxvedIKQfr6K+Ld3eHooTMLzshtpHKMBaQM uSng/h/R593df0ECDiuJooCV4c+3NYj1GUC6nZ7RBj4i8656kzJe1o3ijHBlRvGGMvNN mEenMlXi3WBRIDhetUcZ0sMKU/U1ljNmhFggE= 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 Received: by 10.90.97.16 with SMTP id u16mr1074793agb.56.1233334636920; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:57:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <21750949.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:57:16 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 From: Joshua Murphy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a14dd66b-bca5-4fe2-84c5-cce54aec6436 X-Archives-Hash: b169264de9e5fc629d9e27c386be9d7a On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:48 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 :( > > Greetings, > Niklas Make sure you have /dev/console and /dev/null in place ... it's needed *before* /dev is mounted over with tmpfs for udev. -- Poison [BLX] Joshua M. Murphy