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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:23:06
Message-Id: 49833771.1010203@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4 by reQuiem23
1 reQuiem23 wrote:
2 >
3 > Joshua Murphy-2 wrote:
4 >
5 >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:48 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@×××××.com>
6 >> wrote:
7 >>
8 >>> Hi all,
9 >>>
10 >>> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy
11 >>> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab,
12 >>> add
13 >>> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot
14 >>> is
15 >>> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i use
16 >>> is
17 >>> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i want
18 >>> to
19 >>> boot into my new system, the system starts, even the uvesafb starts, but
20 >>> than the booting process stops with a message like "tty starting" and the
21 >>> system reboots.
22 >>>
23 >>> I removed all the files in /proc /dev and /sys, so probably this could be
24 >>> the cause of the problem. Or does anyone have an idea what could be the
25 >>> problematic factor here? unfortunately i can't provide any logging
26 >>> information because i can't get to a working shell :(
27 >>>
28 >>> Greetings,
29 >>> Niklas
30 >>>
31 >> Make sure you have /dev/console and /dev/null in place ... it's needed
32 >> *before* /dev is mounted over with tmpfs for udev.
33 >>
34 >>
35 >>
36 >
37 > can i just copy these from my existing setup? I'll try that, thanks for the
38 > hint
39 >
40 >
41
42 You can copy those from where ever, CD, old install, it shouldn't
43 matter. They just need to be there.
44
45 Dale
46
47 :-) :-)