HAL doesn't show root partition as mounted?

Paul Betts paul.betts at gmail.com
Sun Apr 15 18:51:08 PDT 2007


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David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 20:56 -0400, Paul Betts wrote:
>> It appears that HAL doesn't show very consistent information for the
>> partition mounted as the root filesystem; it says that it is mounted
>> under the linux.fstab section, but unmounted under the volume section
>> (which my app is using). Here's the relevant parts of lshal -l
> 
> linux.fstab.* is not part of HAL; probably vendor patches - what distro
> are you running? And what's the version of HAL etc.? You really need to
> provide this kind of information if you expect to get help. Either way,
> it's probably your initramfs / distro who are screwing up, see

Mea culpa. Ubuntu Feisty, HAL version 0.5.8.1. /dev/root doesn't exist.

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Paul Betts <paul.betts at gmail.com>
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