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

[Leslie S Satenstein]

Eric, it should go into the documentation for F11.

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

Subject: Re: /boot and ext4
To: [e-mail]
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

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> Eric, it should go into the documentation for F11.

It is already in the release notes and Ext4 FAQ.

Rahul