On Monday 10 March 2003 17:12, 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...
Basically, ext3 is ext2 + additional data, so, if you read an ext3 fs with routines to read ext2, it works. Therefore, grub can use an ext3 /boot partition, even if it doesn't really support it natively (i.e if it only supports ext2). -- Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "This will go a long way towards the war on terror. Terrorists won't be able to install and use unauthorized OS's. This could potentially save thousands of lives." -- a slashdotter about "Trusted Computing"
