On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 08:06:48PM +0100, Felix Kuperjans wrote: > 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...
That was an example in the fstab in the stages, but the handbook always told you to replace /dev/root with the reference to the specific root device. William
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