Mike Gilbert: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Felix Kuperjans > <fe...@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. Well, *if* a line with /dev/root is present in /etc/fstab, the system does not boot up properly (tested it right now). I always though such a line in /etc/fstab is needed so that fsck is run on the root filesystem...
Removing the line completely boots up fine, but the filesystem has not been fscked on boot. Regards, Felix