Re: [SLUG] Copying and booting linux with a partition with a different filesystem type

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2008 - 12:25:49 EST

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Paul M Foster wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:25:24PM -0400, Eben King wrote:
>
>> There's either a kernel flag for it supplied by the bootloader, or the
>> kernel expects / to be mounted when it's invoked, I can't figure out which.
>> /etc/fstab has an entry for / , but it must be dummy, since by that time /
>> is already mounted. The kernel needs support for /'s filesystem, either
>> modular (and in the initrd) or in the kernel. If the module to access / is
>> on /, you have a nice catch-22.
>
> I don't think so. Once configured properly, grub knows how to load your
> *boot* filesystem. The entry in /etc/fstab takes over, loading the
> *root* filesystem once grub has loaded the boot filesystem and booted the
> machine.

What's in the boot filesystem? I have no initrd, so that isn't necessary. 

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