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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late)
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Felix Kuperjans
<felix@desaster-games.com> wrote:
> Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> please review this news item, seems we need one after all
>
> Hello Samuli,
>
> /dev/root is no longer available in this udev version, so people who put
> this in their /etc/fstab might end up with an unbootable system.
>
> I suggest including in the news item, that /dev/root must be replaced
> with the actual root device or LABEL=..., UUID=... and the like in
> /etc/fstab.
>

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.