Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Unresponiveness of 2.4.16 revisited | From | "Nathan G. Grennan" <> | Date | 29 Nov 2001 12:16:07 -0600 |
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On Thu, 2001-11-29 at 12:09, Oktay Akbal wrote: > Why do you think that fstab matters for root-fs ? root-fs needs to be > mounted to read fstab. So autodetection must be done for root-fs. > And if the fs has a journal it is ext3. If you do not want that behaviour > you might use a option to lilo, but I don't know of any option to specify > the root-fs-tyoe. Or you need to use an initrd to mount explicit as ext2 > and pivot-root it to / ? > > -- > Oktay Akbal
Actually, I think it should respect fstab. It does mount it, then fsck it while mounted read-only, then remounts(key point) read-write. IMHO it should remount it with whatever fstab says. I realize this could be a little tricky, but I bet doable.
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