Re: ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?

[Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 yahoo com>]

--- On Tue, 10/28/08, cornel panceac <cpanceac gmail com> wrote:

> i have / on ext4 and /boot on ext3.
> 
> -- 
> Linux counter #213090

After figuring it out, I have ext3 /boot partition and the main one for F10 is ext4 :)

[root riohigh ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaf7caf7c

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          12       96358+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2           31841       31865      200812+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           31866       38913    56613060   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/sda4              13       31840   255658410    5  Extended
/dev/sda5              13       26108   209616088+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6           26109       26239     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7           26240       31840    44990001   83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
[root riohigh ~]# /sbin/blkid -s TYPE /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: TYPE="ext3"
[root riohigh ~]# /sbin/blkid -s TYPE /dev/sda5
/dev/sda5: TYPE="ext4"

Regards,

Antonio