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On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rodolphe Rocca <fake2@××××.fr> wrote: |
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> reQuiem23 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 |
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>> is |
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>> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i want |
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>> 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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>> Greetings, |
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>> Niklas |
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> |
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> grub is not compatible with ext4 |
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# ChangeLog for sys-boot/grub |
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# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 |
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# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/grub/ChangeLog,v 1.110 |
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2009/01/02 01:51:05 robbat2 Exp $ |
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*grub-0.97-r9 (02 Jan 2009) |
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02 Jan 2009; Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> +grub-0.97-r9.ebuild: |
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Ext4 funtime for grub-0.97 series. Remember to reinstall it in your MBR. |
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