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I cannot boot (using grub) in the following scenario:
- primary ext2 /boot partition
- logical ext4 root partition
- logical ext4 /home and /var partitions
Here is the entry in menu.lst:
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro vga=773 rootfstype=ext4
initrd /kernel26.img
The result is a kernel panic, with a message that the root device cannot be accessed.
When I change the root partition to ext3 (via archive - reformat - extract) everything works, including the ext4 /home and /var partitions.
I thought that "grub doesn't support ext4" means that the boot partition cannot be ext4, but I expected root to be OK.
Last edited by grey (2009-05-26 08:08:48)
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Most likely you have to ensure that ext4 module is included in the kernel boot image. Maybe try adding "ext4" to the MODULES section in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and regenerating boot images with "mkinitcpio -p kernel26".
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my ext4 root partition boots fine with the entry below :
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,12)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda14 ro
initrd /kernel26.img
without (rootfstype=ext4)
are your entries in /etc/fstab correct for file types ?
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fwojciec: you were right. Adding ext4 to MODULES did the trick.
Thanks a lot!
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