[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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