Rodolphe Rocca-2 wrote:
>
> reQuiem23 wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy
>> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab,
>> add
>> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot
>> is
>> on a separate ext3 partition, so this is not a problem. The kernel i use
>> is
>> gentoo-sources 2.6.28-r1 with ext4-support enabled. However, when i want
>> to
>> boot into my new system, the system starts, even the uvesafb starts, but
>> than the booting process stops with a message like "tty starting" and the
>> system reboots.
>>
>> I removed all the files in /proc /dev and /sys, so probably this could be
>> the cause of the problem. Or does anyone have an idea what could be the
>> problematic factor here? unfortunately i can't provide any logging
>> information because i can't get to a working shell :(
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Niklas
>>
> grub is not compatible with ext4
>
>
yeah, but my /boot is still ext3 and grub IS actually loading the system, it
even runs uvesafb. or is grub even incompatible with ext4 root-filesystems?
i thought this was entirely handled by the kernel.
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