Fedora Core 12 Not Booting

[Howard Gibson]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 00:34:49 -0400 (EDT)
"D. Hugh Redelmeier" <hugh-pmF8o41NoarQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> | From: Howard Gibson <hgibson-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org>
> 
> |    I have just installed Fedora Core 12 on my desktop, and it is not 
> |    booting.  I am using the ext4 filesystem on my root partition.
> 
> If I remember correctly, Fedora 12's GRUB does not understand ext4.
> You probably need an ext3 /boot partition for GRUB and the kernel etc.

Hugh,

   I used ext4 for my root partition.

   Does this mean that everything would have worked if I had used ext3?

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