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From: reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:06:43
Message-Id: 21751280.post@talk.nabble.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman-3 wrote:
2 >
3 > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com>
4 > wrote:
5 >>
6 >> Hi all,
7 >>
8 >> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy
9 >> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab,
10 >> add
11 >> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot
12 >> is
13 >> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i use
14 >> is
15 >> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i want
16 >> to
17 >> boot into my new system, the system starts, even the uvesafb starts, but
18 >> than the booting process stops with a message like "tty starting" and the
19 >> system reboots.
20 >>
21 >> I removed all the files in /proc /dev and /sys, so probably this could be
22 >> the cause of the problem. Or does anyone have an idea what could be the
23 >> problematic factor here? unfortunately i can't provide any logging
24 >> information because i can't get to a working shell :(
25 >
26 > Don't know if it is related, but for me I had to put rootfstype=ext4
27 > on the kernel commandline. Also make sure you're using
28 > sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9, I know it has ext4 support.
29 >
30 >
31 >
32
33 I actually have that parameter on the kernel command line. I'll check my
34 grub version, though, thank you.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>