ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?

[cornel panceac]

2008/10/28 Aioanei Rares <schaiba at gmail.com>

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> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Jon Ciesla <limb at jcomserv.net> wrote:
>
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>> > 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.
>>
>
btw, what's an 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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