Bug#535513: daily fails to generate ramdisk because / not mounted
On Tuesday 21 July 2009, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> * Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> [2009-07-21 16:23]:
> > What *exactly* do you mean by "/ is no longer mounted"? It seems to
> > me that it is kind of a silly statement because without a / I would
> > say you can't have a chroot.
> >
> > I guess what you mean is that /etc/mtab or /proc/mounts or the mount
> > command no longer *lists* /. Is that it?
>
> Yes, that's what I meant. It shows up fine in the d-i system but not
> in the target.
Which of the three I mentioned is the actual problem? Did they all change
or just one or two? Which is used in the relevant code?
Wasn't /etc/mtab for installed systems changed after Lenny to be a symlink
to /proc/mounts? I seem to remember a discussion on d-devel about that.
I also seem to remember that D-I had some special handling for
/target/etc/mtab, but I'm not sure. Guess a grep in the lenny branch of
D-I SVN (and trunk for comparison) should tell.
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