On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rodolphe Rocca <[email protected]> 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
# ChangeLog for sys-boot/grub # Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-boot/grub/ChangeLog,v 1.110 2009/01/02 01:51:05 robbat2 Exp $ *grub-0.97-r9 (02 Jan 2009) 02 Jan 2009; Robin H. Johnson <[email protected]> +grub-0.97-r9.ebuild: Ext4 funtime for grub-0.97 series. Remember to reinstall it in your MBR.
