On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:53 PM, reQuiem23 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Saphirus Sage wrote: >> >> >> >> On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:23 PM, reQuiem23 <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> Albert Hopkins-4 wrote: >>>> >>>> On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, 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. >>>> >>>> Yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that. There are 'skeleton' >>>> copies of /dev/ files in your root partition before udev kicks in and >>>> those files are needed by the boot process (e.g. /dev/console). >>>> >>>> What I recommend doing is: >>>> * boot into a livecd/usbstick >>>> * mount your root partition (ro) somewhere (e.g. /tmp/root >>>> * mount your empty destination partition somewhere >>>> (e.g. /tmp/newroot) >>>> * copy the files over to the new ext4 partition in whatever >>>> manner >>>> * reconfigure new fstab, grub.conf, etc and reboot. >>>> >>>> For livecd/usb I always use RipLinux. The latest version supports >>>> ext4 >>>> and has both 32- and 64-bit kernels. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> I did it exactly the way you recommended, but i still get an error, >>> even >>> though it's another one than before: >>> >>> Kernel: Unable to open an initial console. >>> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option >>> to >>> kernel. >>> >>> An idea? >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> http://www.nabble.com/Gentoo-from-ext3-to-ext4-tp21750949p21752851.html >>> Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>> >>> >> I had a similar problem with my initial LiveCD install. Do you just >> boot directly from the gzipped kernel image or use initramfs? >> >> >> > > > As expected, it was not a good idea to try and boot from an empty root > partition :D now it all works, I'm writing this from ext4, thanks to all of > you for your kind help.
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