ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?

[Jon Ciesla]

> 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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