Problem: after updating from Debian 8 to Devuan 2 the overlay live-boot failes with “no such device”
Discussion: I use a bootable USB stick combined with live-boot. In this case the USB stick partition 3 is a normal ext4 file system used as read only “plainroot” filesystem. Live-boot overlays this with an ramfs.
As I don’t know the /dev/sdaX file on the target system I use “root=LABEL=KROOT” to find the USB root image. This worked before but it does not any more. The reason is the following line in /lib/live/boot/9990-overlay.sh in the “plain root system” section:
mount -t $(get_fstype "${image_directory}") -o ro,noatime "${image_directory}" "${croot}/filesystem"get_fstype “LABEL=KROOT” results in “unkown” and this mount command fails.
Solution: I removed the get_fstype part -t $(get_fstype “${image_directory}”) in /lib/live/boot/9990-overlay.sh. Mount guesses the filesystem type automatically.
After that you have to rebuild initramdisk with update-initramfs.
Version: tested with devuan 2.1, and this kernel boot options: “read-only boot=live root=LABEL=KROOT rootdelay=10 ignore_uuid plainroot”