F11 /boot and ext4 No can do, Grub does not support /Ext4

Leslie Satenstein lsatenstein at yahoo.com
Fri May 29 23:00:31 UTC 2009


Eric, it should go into the documentation for F11. 

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 Leslie Satenstein

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--- On Fri, 5/29/09, Eric Sandeen  @redhat.com> wrote:

 
Subject: Re: /boot and ext4
To: lsatenstein at yahoo.com
Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 5:10 PM

Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> When I started testing F11, I could only get Linux to load if /boot was
> an Ext3 system. Has this been checked and is /boot able to be formatted
> as Ext4
> 

our grub doesn't yet have support for ext4, so yes, /boot has to be ext3.

anaconda enforces this restriction, too.

we focused more on ext4 stability, fixing oopses & corruptions, and
worried less about /boot, for now.  Next release should have it.

-ERic

>
> Regards from
> Montreal
> 
>  
> 
> Leslie Satenstein
> 

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