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reQuiem23 wrote: |
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> Albert Hopkins-4 wrote: |
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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 |
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>>> copy |
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>>> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, |
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>>> add |
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>>> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot |
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>>> is |
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>>> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i use |
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>>> is |
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>>> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i want |
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>>> 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 |
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>>> 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 |
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>>> 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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> I did it exactly the way you recommended, but i still get an error, even |
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> though it's another one than before: |
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> Kernel: Unable to open an initial console. |
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> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to |
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> kernel. |
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> An idea? |
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Oh man, apparently i havent umounted the partition properly, for there is no |
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single file on it... This is of course not going to work. |
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