Re: This also happened to me, easy to fix...

From: Mark South (marksouth_at_null.invalid)
Date: 01/31/05


Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:42:31 +0100

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 05:12:43 -0800, Tom F. wrote:

> The partition that contains your linux kernel is most probably
> formatted in ext2. This used to be required in the old lilo days, but
> grub can boot ext3 or many other file systems so /boot doesn't have to
> be ext2 anymore.

Lilo, too, can boot ext3, unless my partition table is mightily deceived.

-- 
Mark South: World Citizen, Net Denizen


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