Re: grub on ext3
On 10 Mar, Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> mi wrote:
> >Does anybody know if grub can boot a kernel from an ext3 rootfilesystem,
> >( with a /boot directory) - or if it's necessary to have an ext2 /boot
> >partition then ?
> >Didn't found anything explicitly in the docs...
> >
>
> As an ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2, I would think grub wouldn't
> care. It would just treat it as ext2. Of course, I haven't actually
> tried it...
IIRC, grub mounts/reads ext3 as ext3. I know I never had any problems with grub and ext3 when using that combination with my Gentoo Linux desktop at home.
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