The grub menu displayed as if the system knew which partition contains the bootloader. The root partition mounted by itself. Neither dmesg nor my init/process manager threw any errors. The boot partition was not mounted, neither was swap.

I did manually create an fstab from within the installed system and all is fine, so my question is purely academic. Do modern systems not need an fstab in order to know which devices and partitions to mount where?

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Thanks! I guess I need to read up on the boot process. 😅

    Logically, the root partition should be mountable without fstab because otherwise it would be a chicken and egg problem :) Don’t I have egg (or chicken???) on my face… 🤣