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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:53 PM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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>>>> * 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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>>> 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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>>> to |
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>>> kernel. |
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>>> An idea? |
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>>> -- |
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>>> View this message in context: |
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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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