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Saphirus Sage wrote: |
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> On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:23 PM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com> |
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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) |
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>>>> and copy |
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>>>> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/ |
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>>>> fstab, |
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>>>> add |
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>>>> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My / |
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>>>> boot |
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>>>> is |
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>>>> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel |
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>>>> i use |
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>>>> is |
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>>>> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when |
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>>>> i want |
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>>>> to |
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>>>> boot into my new system, the system starts, even the uvesafb |
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>>>> starts, but |
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>>>> than the booting process stops with a message like "tty starting" |
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>>>> 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 |
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>>>> 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 |
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>>> 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 |
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>>> 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, |
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>> 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 |
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>> kernel. |
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>> An idea? |
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>> http://www.nabble.com/Gentoo-from-ext3-to-ext4-tp21750949p21752851.html |
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>> Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. |
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> I had a similar problem with my initial LiveCD install. Do you just |
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> boot directly from the gzipped kernel image or use initramfs? |
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As expected, it was not a good idea to try and boot from an empty root |
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partition :D now it all works, I'm writing this from ext4, thanks to all of |
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you for your kind help. |
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Greetings, |
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Niklas |
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