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Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>:
> > The version I just released does exactly that.  Well, not exactly; it
> > actually looks at fstab -- /proc/mounts gives you '/dev/root' rather
> > than a physical device name in the root entry.
> 
> /etc/fstab is hardly guaranteed to be accurate either.  The kernel
> mounts the root device based on its command line and any pivot_root()
> calls you make, not based on /etc/fstab.
> 
> [In practice, I imagine most people don't lie to fstab.  The fsck init
> script would get annoyed.]

Agreed.  The root device getting overridden by either of these means 
is well into the territory an autoconfigurator cannot be reasonably
expected to cover.
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