From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A2A213862F for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:56:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FA4E21C0F3; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:56:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8476221C00C for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:56:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-f52.google.com (mail-la0-f52.google.com [209.85.215.52]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: floppym) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5568633DB1D for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f52.google.com with SMTP id fs12so2131200lab.39 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:56:29 -0800 (PST) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.26.70 with SMTP id j6mr1157523lbg.55.1358967389231; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:56:29 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.39.1 with HTTP; Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:56:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <50FFE241.6030107@gentoo.org> <51002BFF.3070402@desaster-games.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:56:29 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late) From: Mike Gilbert To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 2080e26f-0a05-4aa4-8037-8ba6243b5f73 X-Archives-Hash: 7b046dad3eb6cc3fade79d32d111fb58 On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mike Gilbert 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)... > Ah, good to know. I'm used to dealing with my little homegrown initramfs, where I parse root from the kernel command line in /init. genkernel does the same thing.