ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Tue, 10/28/08, Timothy Murphy <tim at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> From: Timothy Murphy <tim at maths.tcd.ie>
> Subject: Re: ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?
> To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
> Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 8:22 AM
> stan wrote:
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> Slightly OT, but I didn't see any mention of ext4
> when I installed F10 (actually F9.92) from the KDE Live CD.
> When I formatted a partition (I used Custom Install)
> I was offered ext3 or ext2, IIRC, but not ext4.
> 
> Less OT, can't one have ext3 /boot with ext3 MBR?
> 
> 
> -- 

Yes!  Last post(s) confirm it.

Regards,

Antonio