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On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, reQuiem23 wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy |
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> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add |
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> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot is |
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> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i use is |
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> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i want to |
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> boot into my new system, the system starts, even the uvesafb starts, but |
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> than the booting process stops with a message like "tty starting" and the |
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> system reboots. |
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> I removed all the files in /proc /dev and /sys, so probably this could be |
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> the cause of the problem. |
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Yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that. There are 'skeleton' |
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copies of /dev/ files in your root partition before udev kicks in and |
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those files are needed by the boot process (e.g. /dev/console). |
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What I recommend doing is: |
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* boot into a livecd/usbstick |
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* mount your root partition (ro) somewhere (e.g. /tmp/root |
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* mount your empty destination partition somewhere |
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(e.g. /tmp/newroot) |
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* copy the files over to the new ext4 partition in whatever manner |
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* reconfigure new fstab, grub.conf, etc and reboot. |
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For livecd/usb I always use RipLinux. The latest version supports ext4 |
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and has both 32- and 64-bit kernels. |
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