On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@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
