EXT4 heads up...

[Man-wai Chang]

>> I'm pretty sure it was a timing issue. Ext4 needed to be marked
>> stable, GRUB needed to be able to boot from ext4. Many other small
>> pieces, I'm sure. And all this *before* they decide what's going into
>> the release.
> 
> LILO has no problem w/ ext4.  Just use it.

A better solution is to separate /boot from root. /root can use ext2 safely.

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