On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Erik Troan wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > secondly (and possibly related to the first issue), what names does > > linux rescue mode use to mount existing filesystems from the hard > > drive under /mnt/sysimage? i had initially assumed that, if labels > > It doesn't use labels at all -- it looks at all of the filesystem on the > system to find ones that look like root filesystems (i.e. /etc/fstab needs > to exist). If there are multiple ones you should get a list of the choices > just like for an upgrade. ah, so once it finds the root filesystem(s), it will use the /etc/fstab files and mount further filesystems based on what it reads there? that seems to match the behavior i'm seeing. thanks. rday
