/ suddenly mounted read only under edgy

[Derek Broughton]

Nils wrote:

> i figured out that mount cannot read the lines with UUID=something..
> but what then mounts the partitions when edgy boots?

It's _supposed_ to work.  When this was first introduced in edgy, though, I
had similar problems (though I think not on /) and ended up reverting to
the old fstab.  I can't believe that change was made with no fanfare.  Any
change to mounting root partitions has huge consequences.
-- 
derek