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

[reQuiem23]

Albert Hopkins-4 wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, reQuiem23 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.
>
> Yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that.  There are 'skeleton'
> copies of /dev/ files in your root partition before udev kicks in and
> those files are needed by the boot process (e.g. /dev/console).
>
> What I recommend doing is:
>       * boot into a livecd/usbstick
>       * mount your root partition (ro) somewhere (e.g. /tmp/root
>       * mount your empty destination partition somewhere
>         (e.g. /tmp/newroot)
>       * copy the files over to the new ext4 partition in whatever manner
>       * reconfigure new fstab, grub.conf, etc and reboot.
>
> For livecd/usb I always use RipLinux.  The latest version supports ext4
> and has both 32- and 64-bit kernels.
>
>
>
>

I did it exactly the way you recommended, but i still get an error, even
though it's another one than before:

Kernel: Unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found.  Try passing init= option to
kernel.

An idea?
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