On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, reQuiem23 <niklas.baumst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Paul Hartman-3 wrote: >> >> 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. >> >> >> > > I actually have that parameter on the kernel command line. I'll check my > grub version, though, thank you.
Be sure to re-install grub to MBR as well. Just emerging it won't be good enough.
