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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] news item for udev 197-r3 upgrade (yes, I know, it's late)
From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org>
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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)...
>
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.