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Tried beta release (x64) on VirtualBox with ext4. No show after reboot. Something wrong with grub. So tried with ext3. Everything's fine. I'll try to use JJ RC1 with ext4.
God bless virtualization...;)

Most lightly because your boot partition needs to be ext3(grub doesn't support booting from ext4) and Ubuntu doesn't set it up proper. Fedora 11 sets it up as /boot(ext3) /(ext4)

I dont use a separate boot, but my root root is ext4, and i can boot jaunty just fine.

Grub supports booting from ext4. My arch is all ext4 and grub boots fine.

From http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/904overview

Ext4 support in GRUB was provided by Colin King. If you choose to upgrade your / or /boot filesystem in place from ext2 or ext3 to ext4 (as documented on the ext4 wiki), then you must also use the grub-install command after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 RC to reinstall your boot loader. If you do not do this, then the version of GRUB installed in your boot sector will not be able to read the kernel from the ext4 filesystem and your system will fail to boot.

Maybe there is still some bugs with 64bit version?? I am really looking forward to have the official blessed version coming next week. I really love Ubuntu and Mark Shuttleworth is my idol.

Same here, /boot is ext4 and no problems with grub.

Are we going to have to go through this ever single time?

Page 1 stories include a "Read More" link where the editors write their take on the news item, and give more details on it.

Page 2 stories don't include the "Read More" link, don't have any extra insights from the editors, and are basically just copy/paste blurbs with links to the main story on whichever web server.

It's not rocket science.

And, the story about the Ubuntu 9.04 beta release was on the front page. There's really nothing new to report from the beta to the rc in regards to features, so there's no need for an additional read more link and thus no need for it to be on the front page.

On the beta version I have found that the Update Manager freezes when installing a particular update, and this only happens when ext4 is used for "/" mount point. It doesn't happen if I use ext3, so not sure what this is, but will continue to use ext3 for now ...

Have you EVER installed one of the popular distros lately?
you really thought THAT was complex?
if yes, do you use your computer for anything other than playing solitaire?

These people were not talking about the default selections dude...

Try it if want, talk later. Don't talk cheap...

I wouldn't trust any inexperienced user on Windows to go off the default because they can royally screw it up.

Edited 2009-04-17 18:48 UTC

Yes but you don't know the half of it.

I've been using the Ubuntu distro since 7.04 and having upgraded to 8.10 from 8.04 using an Ubuntu disk from a magazine months after it had been "finished" and immediately downloaded appropriate updates, the thing still wasn't working correctly.

I went through the Ubuntu forums on my Mac, gasped at the daily additions to the "how did you installtion go?" thread and found the information I needed to fix the various issues.

I can still see grandma asking what went wrong and her response to the changes she'd need to make to get the box running correctly again. I could see her throwing the computer out the door along with some profanity.

Ubuntu needs to slow down a bit and look at what they're pushing out the door before reality hits the fan again.

I use ext4 on my asus eee pc 1000 and a x64 desktop with Ubuntu 9.04 * and have had no problems for months. I also boot off of ext4 too.

If in doubt use ext3.
Ubuntu did warn for ext4 on install time.

Replaced the motherboard on my pc, the xubuntu partition runs fine, the windows xp partitions crashes hard... (reboots)
So ubuntu is way easier than windows.