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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com> 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, add |
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> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot is |
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> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i use is |
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> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i want 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. |