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. -- Douglas G. Phillips ITS/Client Services Client Services HELP Desk: 581-HELP Eastern Illinois University
