Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

[reQuiem23]

Paul Hartman-3 wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul Hartman-3 wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and
>>>> copy
>>>> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab,
>>>> add
>>>> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot
>>>> is
>>>> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i
>>>> use
>>>> is
>>>> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i
>>>> want
>>>> to
>>>> boot into my new system, the system starts, even the uvesafb starts,
>>>> but
>>>> than the booting process stops with a message like "tty starting" and
>>>> the
>>>> system reboots.
>>>>
>>>> I removed all the files in /proc /dev and /sys, so probably this could
>>>> be
>>>> the cause of the problem. Or does anyone have an idea what could be the
>>>> problematic factor here? unfortunately i can't provide any logging
>>>> information because i can't get to a working shell :(
>>>
>>> Don't know if it is related, but for me I had to put rootfstype=ext4
>>> on the kernel commandline. Also make sure you're using
>>> sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9, I know it has ext4 support.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I actually have that parameter on the kernel command line. I'll check my
>> grub version, though, thank you.
>
> Be sure to re-install grub to MBR as well. Just emerging it won't be
> good enough.
>
>
>

Okay, i still got that in mind from the installation guide, but thanks
nevertheless :)
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