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Rodolphe Rocca-2 wrote: |
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> 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 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 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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>> Greetings, |
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>> Niklas |
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> grub is not compatible with ext4 |
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yeah, but my /boot is still ext3 and grub IS actually loading the system, it |
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even runs uvesafb. or is grub even incompatible with ext4 root-filesystems? |
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i thought this was entirely handled by the kernel. |
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