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Paul Hartman-3 wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com> |
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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, |
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>> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot |
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>> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i use |
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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 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. Or does anyone have an idea what could be the |
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>> problematic factor here? unfortunately i can't provide any logging |
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>> information because i can't get to a working shell :( |
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> Don't know if it is related, but for me I had to put rootfstype=ext4 |
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> on the kernel commandline. Also make sure you're using |
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> sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9, I know it has ext4 support. |
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I actually have that parameter on the kernel command line. I'll check my |
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grub version, though, thank you. |
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