On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 16:29 -0500, zephod@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I noticed from reading the grub manual > (http:\\www.gnu.org\software\grub\manual.htm#Features) that it does > not list ext3 as one of the supported filesystem types. > > Is this my problem or is the manual not up-to-date? If this is the > problem how do I change the boot partition from ext3 to ext2 and how > did my FC5 system boot? My systems (FC4-FC6) have an ext3 boot partition. Ext3 can be mounted as ext2, with just a change in mounting options. However, the boot partition isn't mounted by GRUB like it is by the running OS. I don't know what mode GRUB uses the boot partition in. Once the system has begun to boot (GRUB has done its trick and handed things over), the boot partition is mounted, by Linux. > The other thing that looks odd to me is that the partition table is > msdos. Is this correct? You're probably going to have to show us the output from: fdisk -l Mine has nothing that shows up as MS-DOS, though the partitions are written in a way that a BIOS only designed with Microsoft in mind, can read. Another issue is that you can format partitions with different filing systems than the partitions are listed as. Here's one of mine: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 15.3 GB, 15393079296 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1871 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 905 7164990 83 Linux /dev/hda3 906 956 409657+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 957 1871 7349737+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 957 1007 409626 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/hda6 1008 1045 305203+ 83 Linux /dev/hda7 1046 1871 6634813+ 83 Linux hda1 is /boot hda2 is /var hda3 is /tmp hda4 is an extended partition containing hda5-hda7 hda5 is the swap hda6 is /home hda7 is / Other than the swap, they're all ext3.
