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From: Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:31:34
Message-Id: 49833972.407@free.fr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman wrote:
2 > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@××××.fr> wrote:
3 >
4 >> reQuiem23 wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Hi all,
7 >>>
8 >>> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy
9 >>> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add
10 >>> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot is
11 >>> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i use
12 >>> is
13 >>> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i want
14 >>> to
15 >>> boot into my new system, the system starts, even the uvesafb starts, but
16 >>> than the booting process stops with a message like "tty starting" and the
17 >>> system reboots.
18 >>>
19 >>> I removed all the files in /proc /dev and /sys, so probably this could be
20 >>> the cause of the problem. Or does anyone have an idea what could be the
21 >>> problematic factor here? unfortunately i can't provide any logging
22 >>> information because i can't get to a working shell :(
23 >>>
24 >>> Greetings,
25 >>> Niklas
26 >>>
27 >>>
28 >> grub is not compatible with ext4
29 >>
30 >
31 > # ChangeLog for sys-boot/grub
32 > # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
33 > # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/grub/ChangeLog,v 1.110
34 > 2009/01/02 01:51:05 robbat2 Exp $
35 >
36 > *grub-0.97-r9 (02 Jan 2009)
37 >
38 > 02 Jan 2009; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> +grub-0.97-r9.ebuild:
39 > Ext4 funtime for grub-0.97 series. Remember to reinstall it in your MBR.
40 >
41 Great. Last time I checked was... probably before jan, the 2th ;-)