ext4 able to boot from ext3 mbr?

Aioanei Rares schaiba at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 15:27:14 UTC 2008


On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Timothy Murphy <tim at maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> 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?
>
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Maybe I'm a little outdated, but /boot must be ext2.
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