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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> fstab is not consulted for mounting the root filesystem, so it doesn't
> really matter what you have in there. Either the kernel mounts it
> based on the kernel command line, or your initramfs mounts it based on
> whatever your /init programs does.

Keep in mind that for some implementations "whatever your /init
programs does" includes checking fstab.  When I switched to dracut I
discovered this when the system would not boot - my fstab had the
wrong filesystem type for the root (it dated back to the ext2 days)...

Rich