Convert ext3 to ext4

[Eric Sandeen]

Joshua C. wrote:
> 2009/3/31 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>:
>> Be warned that you still need an ext3 (or ext2) /boot, GRUB still does not
>> support ext4. :-(
>>
>> There's a patch available somewhere, but it hasn't been applied to Fedora's
>> GRUB yet.
>>
>>        Kevin Kofler
> 
>  Will this patch be applied to grub before f11-final?

Unknown.  If you'd like to test it, you can try

http://sandeen.fedorapeople.org/grub-ext4-support.patch

or

http://sandeen.fedorapeople.org/grub-0.97-43.fc11.ext4.src.rpm

(that's not totally up to date; koji now has 0.97-44)

There is also a bug for this at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486284
[PATCH] RFE: ext4 support in grub

I think it's up to pjones whether we will merge this for f11, but TBH
there were more pressing issues than this so it's not had a lot of
airtime yet, and post-beta is a "fun" time to make a significant change
to the bootloader...

-Eric