ubuntu 9.04 installation problem

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Steve Flynn wrote:
>>        Well Mark, since your better than a can of cheap beer, why is it bad to
>> use ext4 on a boot partition??? I think ext4 IS experimental and CAN be
>> the problem. And this user WAS using ext4 on /boot!!!!
> 
> EXT4 has been stable since mid-october 2008. It's no longer
> experimental despite what you think.
> 
> Why is it better to not use EXT4 on /boot? Because there's no stable
> version of grub (yet) which supports booting from an EXT4 partition.
> Last time I checked, this was coming in GRUB2.
> 
> 9.04 has a patched version of GRUB which should help with booting from
> EXT4. Bug 314350 dicusses this.
> 
> 
	My position is this. The ext3 file system I have used for some time has
no provisions about anything. The ext4 file system has several things to
look out for. You have them listed here.

	A brand new user of Ubuntu will not want a Grub problem after loading a
ext4 file system. That is why I tell new users to select ext3.


73 Karl


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	Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
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