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sysvinit package

  1. Bug #8585
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 8585

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

(In reply to comment #2)
> - [ "$roottype" != none ] && mount -f -o $rootopts $fstabroot /
> + [ "$roottype" != none ] && mount -f -o $rootopts -t $roottype $fstabroot /

I thought about that, but it seems that $roottype actually comes from
/etc/fstab, and won't _necessarily_ match the real type which was mounted in the
initrd.
As confusing as "unknown" is, I think it would be more confusing for it to say
"ext3" when the root filesystem is actually reiserfs. :-)