The following patch to mkinitrd will prevent monumental screwups when your
fstab accidentally contains multiple entries for / (k3b screwed mine over).
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--- /sbin/mkinitrd 2002-11-07 11:26:46.000000000 +0000
+++ /tmp/mkinitrd 2002-12-04 17:52:32.000000000 +0000
@@ -402,11 +402,11 @@
fi
-rootfs=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/") { print $3; }}' $fstab)
-rootfsopts=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/" && $6) { print $4; }}' $fstab | sed "s|defaults||;s|auto||;s|loop||;s|,,|,|;s|,$||;s|^,||")
+rootfs=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/") { print $3; }}' $fstab | head -1)
+rootfsopts=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/" && $6) { print $4; }}' $fstab | sed "s|defaults||;s|auto||;s|loop||;s|,,|,|;s|,$||;s|^,||" | head -1)
-rootdev=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/") { print $1; }}' $fstab)
-root_major=$(ls -l $rootdev | awk '{ print $5}')
+rootdev=$(awk '{ if ($1 !~ /^[ \t]*#/ && $2 == "/") { print $1; }}' $fstab | head -1)
+root_major=$(ls -l $rootdev | awk '{ print $5}' | head -1)
if [ $root_major = 58, ]; then
# root is on an LVM LV
