On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> 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.
