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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:09:16
Message-Id: 58965d8a0901300908y1f30a60aiadd80d6b8e622b97@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 by reQuiem23
1 On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 >
5 > Paul Hartman-3 wrote:
6 >>
7 >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com>
8 >> wrote:
9 >>>
10 >>> Hi all,
11 >>>
12 >>> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy
13 >>> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab,
14 >>> add
15 >>> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot
16 >>> is
17 >>> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i use
18 >>> is
19 >>> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i want
20 >>> to
21 >>> boot into my new system, the system starts, even the uvesafb starts, but
22 >>> than the booting process stops with a message like "tty starting" and the
23 >>> system reboots.
24 >>>
25 >>> I removed all the files in /proc /dev and /sys, so probably this could be
26 >>> the cause of the problem. Or does anyone have an idea what could be the
27 >>> problematic factor here? unfortunately i can't provide any logging
28 >>> information because i can't get to a working shell :(
29 >>
30 >> Don't know if it is related, but for me I had to put rootfstype=ext4
31 >> on the kernel commandline. Also make sure you're using
32 >> sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9, I know it has ext4 support.
33 >>
34 >>
35 >>
36 >
37 > I actually have that parameter on the kernel command line. I'll check my
38 > grub version, though, thank you.
39
40 Be sure to re-install grub to MBR as well. Just emerging it won't be
41 good enough.

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