[syslinux] Re: 2 root disks sdb1,sdc1; if set "root=/dev/sdc1", mtab lies saying sdb1 is root!?

Stephen Brown sbrown7 at umbc.edu
Mon Aug 26 06:50:26 PDT 2002


On Sun, 25 Aug 2002, Tom Rodman wrote:

> Just curious..:
>   During boot what happens, I see a chicken egg dilemna - how is fstab read
>   without the root partition first getting mounted?  I need a better overview of the
>   boot process.  Is a temporary mount point (not "/") used to read the partition,
>   and later pivot_root used.. I should be looking at source code, right?
>   How about another nudge in the right direction; I won't post any more on
>   this thread.

Have a look at:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html
for a succinct tutorial on the boot process.  Much more understandable
than the source code for most of us mortals.

Steve Brown
sbrown7 at umbc.edu




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