Hello Eric,

Eric Fournie [2015-04-27 11:15 -0000]:
> OK to put the bug to "Won't fix", but I would be happy to understand why
> upstart was being able to boot although the uuid of the / partition was
> incorrect.

I'm not entirely familiar with the details of mountall; but it looks
like it just ignored the fstab entry for the root partition in this
case, together with all of its options, and merely made the root
partition read-write.

So if you have multiple installations on your system, you could end up
booting the wrong one in the worst case. Also, having a wrong UUID in
fstab means that you could never rebuild your initramfs, as that would
propagate the wrong UUID there. I actually wonder how your system
managed to boot like that before? Every other package in -updates or
-security triggers an initramfs update, after all..

Thanks,

Martin

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