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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o> wrote: |
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>> fstab is not consulted for mounting the root filesystem, so it doesn't |
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>> really matter what you have in there. Either the kernel mounts it |
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>> based on the kernel command line, or your initramfs mounts it based on |
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>> whatever your /init programs does. |
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> Keep in mind that for some implementations "whatever your /init |
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> programs does" includes checking fstab. When I switched to dracut I |
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> discovered this when the system would not boot - my fstab had the |
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> wrong filesystem type for the root (it dated back to the ext2 days)... |
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Ah, good to know. I'm used to dealing with my little homegrown |
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initramfs, where I parse root from the kernel command line in /init. |
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genkernel does the same thing. |
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