ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?

[cornel panceac]

2008/10/28 Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com>

> --- On Tue, 10/28/08, Aioanei Rares <schaiba at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Aioanei Rares <schaiba at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?
> > To: limb at jcomserv.net, "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 8:16 AM
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jon Ciesla
> > <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:01 PM, stan
> > <eiqep_eiwo_y at cox.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> 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.  It kept
> > > >> hanging
> > > >> when it went to the boot partition.  I tried
> > some playing around but
> > > >> didn't
> > > >> get it to work.  I ended up using preupgrade,
> > which worked flawlessly
> > > >> but
> > > >> left me in ext3.
> > > >>
> > > >> When F10 is available I would like to run it
> > in an ext4 filesystem.
> > > >> Will
> > > >> this incompatibility between ext3 and ext4
> > still be a problem?  F10 will
> > > >> not
> > > >> be installed on the same disk as the mbr is
> > on.  If it is a problem, is
> > > >> there a workaround?
> > > >>
> > > >> Just in case, will preupgrade work for F10?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks.
> > > >>
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> > > > AFAICT, no.
> > >
> > > No to what?  He asked 2 questions.
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> > No as in one cannot boot from a ext3 mbr if one wants to
> > use ext4. Sorry for
> > not being explicit enough.
> > --
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> One can have an ext4 partition, but the /boot partition has to be ext2 or
> ext3 if I am not mistaken?  I have such a setup that I have an ext4
> partition, but I am not sure if the /boot partition is ext2 or ext3?


i have / on ext4 and /boot on ext3.

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> Antonio
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