ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?

[Aioanei Rares]

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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