ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?
Eric Sandeen
sandeen at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 15:32:40 UTC 2008
Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 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?
>
That's correct.
If the mention of "ext3 mbr" meant "/boot is ext3" then the relevant
info is: grub cannot (yet) boot from ext4. /boot must be a separate,
non-ext4, grub-supported filesystem. I'd go with ext3.
Thanks,
-Eric
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