Installing F13

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Mon May 31 00:37:26 UTC 2010


On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 30 May 2010 03:53 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Suvayu Ali<fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> On Saturday 29 May 2010 12:33 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:06 -0700, Michael Miles wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sda1 ext4 /boot is 200 meg and locked, Will not allow me to do anything
>>>>> except format
>>>>
>>>> Supposedly /boot cannot be ext4 as it's not yet supported by Grub, so I
>>>> don't know how you got that to work.
>>>
>>> That is not correct.
>>>
>>> $ mount -l
>>> /dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw) [Fedora-13-x86_64]
>>>
>>> AFAIR I had the same in F11 too.
>>
>> F12
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Alpha_release_notes#GRUB_with_Ext4_Support
>
> Ah, must have been confused then (I have been using F11 and F12
> simultaneously on different machines :-p ). But as you can see for F13
> its definitely supported.

I remember because I was corrected on this list about grub1 booting
from an ext4'd /boot because I had no idea that Fedora had patched
grub1 (plain vanilla grub1 cannot do this AFAIK).


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