ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?

[Aioanei Rares]

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.
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