From 15cab4d017c7cc46b8234bfa641fcef2b28207b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 12:25:32 -0500
Subject: init: drop pre-mount check for block device

Not all root devices are block devices, after all. Rely on mount doing
the right thing (or not).

ref: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/45118
ref: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35529
---
 init_functions | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init_functions b/init_functions
index dfe2036..8ad10c7 100644
--- a/init_functions
+++ b/init_functions
@@ -374,14 +374,6 @@ resolve_device() {
 }
 
 default_mount_handler() {
-    if [ ! -b "$root" ]; then
-        err "Unable to find root device '$root'."
-        echo "You are being dropped to a recovery shell"
-        echo "    Type 'exit' to try and continue booting"
-        launch_interactive_shell
-        msg "Trying to continue (this will most likely fail) ..."
-    fi
-
     msg ":: mounting '$root' on real root"
     if ! mount ${rootfstype:+-t $rootfstype} -o ${rwopt:-ro}${rootflags:+,$rootflags} "$root" "$1"; then
         echo "You are now being dropped into an emergency shell."
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