ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?

[cornel panceac]

2008/10/28 Aioanei Rares <schaiba at gmail.com>

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> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Timothy Murphy <tim at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
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>> stan wrote:
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>> > When I installed F9 from the liveCD I decided to use the
>> > EXT4 file system.  Unfortunately, there was no way to boot
>> > from my ext3 mbr.
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>> Slightly OT, but I didn't see any mention of ext4
>> when I installed F10 (actually F9.92) from the KDE Live CD.
>> When I formatted a partition (I used Custom Install)
>> I was offered ext3 or ext2, IIRC, but not ext4.
>>
>> Less OT, can't one have ext3 /boot with ext3 MBR?
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> Maybe I'm a little outdated, but /boot must be ext2.


if i was you, i'd listen to eric sandeen. please don't ask me why :)

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