Comment 7 for bug 2049271

I'm not sure what are you talking about. Mby it would be better to tell you how I encountered the problem.

I've got a headless raspberry pi running ubuntu from an sdcard. It has an extra usb disk plugged in. In fstab I mount the disk as nofail. If I detach the disk and reboot, nothing bad happens, the mount silently fails. But when I detach the disk and reboot with overlayroot=tmpfs kernel option (I just wanted to do a backup), it does not boot, as explained above. A headless system does not boot because of a harmless kernel option. Nice, right? :)

In #2 I provided detailed instructions on how to reproduce the problem in a vm with ubuntu installed using the standard installer.

> Patches welcome

I knew you'd say it