Apparently this is caused by http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-installer/ubiquity/trunk/revision/2753, so that the squashfs'es /etc/fstab overwrites the one which gets created in /target/.
According to Mario, this is the only file we create prior to copying, thus we special-case fstab for alpha-4.
Apparently this is caused by http:// bazaar. launchpad. net/~ubuntu- installer/ ubiquity/ trunk/revision/ 2753, so that the squashfs'es /etc/fstab overwrites the one which gets created in /target/.
According to Mario, this is the only file we create prior to copying, thus we special-case fstab for alpha-4.