[systemd-devel] Antw: [EXT] Re: [systemd‑devel] Splitting sd‑boot from systemd/bootctl for enabling sd‑boot in Fedora

[Wols Lists]

On 28/04/2022 11:30, Ulrich Windl wrote:
>> my educated guess is that your distro is providing some emergency
>> kernel for you that comes with a minimized initrd? If that's the case
>> it's purely the decision of your distro what to put in there and what
>> not.
> So are there any distros that have /etc/fstab in initrd?
> Having to start mount units manually is just terrible when a simple "mount
> /var" would do.
> 
Last I remember (I don't normally end up there), I thought one of the 
first things gentoo did was mount root ro.

So long as I don't have any funny file systems anywhere, or the crash 
occurs before that, everything I need is there ...

Cheers,
Wol