On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 23:19:36 +0100 Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Last time I looked, grub2 couldn't boot on ext4. You need a > separate /boot partition, as ext2 or ext3. Or, alternatively, an > ext2 or ext3 '/' with /home or /srv (wherever you put the space for > the data) on a separate ext4 filesystem. I do have a separate boot partition ( /dev/sdb5 ), formated on reiserfs. And I am trying to boot a system on an ext4 formated partition ( /dev/sda6 ). No way. The only message is an inmediate "error: unknown filesystem". I presume, generated by grub2 when intending to enter the ext4 partition. Other partitions on both disks are booted normaly. > > ISTR grub's ext2 handles ext3, and might not need an insmod. > I tryed also insmod ext2 and insmod ext3. Edgar -- Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers <[email protected]> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
