Fixes related to /etc/fstab and mounting /boot in the initramfs

pmaports side of https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/merge_requests/2304

After quite some back and forth (including closing !5083 (closed)), came to the conclusion that what we want is:

• To mount /boot in the initramfs, and not in the rootfs, as we don't want to read /etc/fstab, and OpenRC localmount will not mount vfat or ext2 filesystems not all installations have proper /etc/fstab. See #2800
• To add as many sensible options as possible, identical to !5083 (closed). Unfortunately the previous point makes the duplication necessary
• We want to fix fstab when possible, to make things consistent

added 6 commits

• d0174175 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add some sane mount options to /boot
• 89fb5594 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add options for charset to mount vfat /boot
• f27d8c92 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: update comment on why we mount /boot
• 1aeec867 - main/postmarketos-base: don't ship a default /etc/fstab
• f03e2561 - main/postmarketos-base: fixup old /etc/fstab entries with multiple bugs
• 08882010 - main/postmarketos-base: add / and /boot entries to empty /etc/fstab

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By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-01T17:55:22

this seems pretty sensible to me. fwiw we eventually plan to drop initramfs-extra for almost all devices (and as a result avoid all this arcane "mounting boot in the initramfs" nonsense).

weird that openrc won't mount vfat partitions from fstab.?

By Caleb Connolly on 2024-05-06T15:54:39

added 6 commits

• 1565089d - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add some sane mount options to /boot
• 075ac3ac - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add options for charset to mount vfat /boot
• b3b22872 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: update comment on why we mount /boot
• e246d8cf - main/postmarketos-base: don't ship a default /etc/fstab
• d10998ec - main/postmarketos-base: fixup old /etc/fstab entries with multiple bugs
• b453e136 - main/postmarketos-base: add / and /boot entries to empty /etc/fstab

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By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-01T22:03:25

added type::fix label

added 5 commits

• f3cbc2c7 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add options for charset to mount vfat /boot
• 8a3c4728 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: update comment on why we mount /boot
• dff98545 - main/postmarketos-base: don't ship a default /etc/fstab
• 5ddb5091 - main/postmarketos-base: fixup old /etc/fstab entries with multiple bugs
• d70160d5 - main/postmarketos-base: add / and /boot entries to empty /etc/fstab

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By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-01T22:08:26

approved this merge request

By Robert Eckelmann on 2024-05-01T23:17:12

added 7 commits

• fb1a13a5 - 1 commit from branch master
• 21b06856 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add some sane mount options to /boot
• 07705b5b - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add options for charset to mount vfat /boot
• 546f3561 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: update comment on why we mount /boot
• 8401656f - main/postmarketos-base: don't ship a default /etc/fstab
• c9ef7a97 - main/postmarketos-base: fixup old /etc/fstab entries with multiple bugs
• 7d2716ee - main/postmarketos-base: add / and /boot entries to empty /etc/fstab

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By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-02T17:25:52

Moved nosymlink to be only fat on concerns: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/merge_requests/2304#note_1888990497

By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-02T17:26:24

added 2 commits

• da5842cc - main/postmarketos-base: fixup old /etc/fstab entries with multiple bugs
• c624ad56 - main/postmarketos-base: add / and /boot entries to empty /etc/fstab

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By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-02T17:30:49

And also from /etc/fstab

By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-02T17:30:57

mentioned in issue pmbootstrap#2201 (closed)

By Robert Eckelmann on 2024-05-03T08:58:28

added 4 commits

• 0be04df4 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add some sane mount options to /boot
• 085fc908 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add options for charset to mount vfat /boot
• dd88dd54 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: update comment on why we mount /boot
• bec5da6f - main/postmarketos-base: fixup old /etc/fstab entries with multiple bugs

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By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-03T17:08:46

added 1 commit

• 1f4426f6 - main/postmarketos-base: fixup old /etc/fstab entries with multiple bugs

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By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-03T17:11:47

added 21 commits

• 1f4426f6...02aad8d3 - 17 commits from branch master
• 80dd5c6d - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add some sane mount options to /boot
• dcf75bfc - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add options for charset to mount vfat /boot
• 077a673d - main/postmarketos-initramfs: update comment on why we mount /boot
• cc52e0c1 - main/postmarketos-base: fixup old /etc/fstab entries with multiple bugs

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By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-06T15:52:49

changed the description

By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-06T15:53:43

resolved all threads

By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-06T15:55:21

approved this merge request

By jenneron on 2024-05-06T18:46:34

resolved all threads

By jenneron on 2024-05-06T18:46:39

resolved all threads

By clayton craft on 2024-05-09T18:15:23

approved this merge request

By clayton craft on 2024-05-09T18:15:25

added 47 commits

• cc52e0c1...1be51a14 - 43 commits from branch master
• 4216fc14 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add some sane mount options to /boot
• 5eed5e37 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add options for charset to mount vfat /boot
• 6b26cbff - main/postmarketos-initramfs: update comment on why we mount /boot
• 1c2cb3ae - main/postmarketos-base: fixup old /etc/fstab entries with multiple bugs

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By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-16T10:01:12

resolved all threads

By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-16T10:01:15

added 10 commits

• 1c2cb3ae...2db5ff27 - 6 commits from branch master
• efc7ad99 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add some sane mount options to /boot (MR 5089)
• bb6d7a05 - main/postmarketos-initramfs: add options for charset to mount vfat /boot (MR 5089)
• 28e58a9c - main/postmarketos-initramfs: update comment on why we mount /boot (MR 5089)
• 3909b1db - main/postmarketos-base: fixup old /etc/fstab entries with multiple bugs (MR 5089)

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By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-16T10:03:22

enabled an automatic merge when the pipeline for 3909b1db succeeds

By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-16T10:03:29

Thanks everybody for the reviews! Merging give then 3 approvals

By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2024-05-16T10:04:01

merged

mentioned in issue #2874 (closed)

By Andreas Kemnade on 2024-06-07T10:09:05