[CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

On Saturday 12 November 2011 22:47:28 Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
> On Friday 11 November 2011 07:44, John Hodrien wrote:
> > grub in EL6 can boot of ext4, and that's grub-0.97-68.el6.x86_64.
> 
> Grub (version 1) from CentOS 6 has apparently been patched to be able to
> handle ext4. There's no doubt that Grub 1 by itself can't boot an ext4
> file system.

Patched or not, Grub 1 has been successfully booting my F14 machine from an 
ext4 partition for a full year now, since I first installed F14.

Ability to boot from ext4 is certainly *not* the reason for moving to Grub 2, 
one way or the other.

HTH, :-)
Marko