On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumst...@gmail.com> 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 :(
Don't know if it is related, but for me I had to put rootfstype=ext4 on the kernel commandline. Also make sure you're using sys-boot/grub-0.97-r9, I know it has ext4 support.
