On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:57 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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.
I have ext4 root filesystem on 2 machines running gentoo & grub and it's working fine. Don't give up :)
