Comment 43 for bug 106209

The proposed partman-target change to make UUID adjustments to foreign OSes' /etc/fstab files is (a) not for Hardy and (b) possibly far too risky to contemplate at all.

Making sure that the system behaves gracefully if a partition in /etc/fstab goes missing is another facet of this bug; for example we could present some kind of UI in usplash for the user to resolve this, rather than just falling over to a prompt.

At any rate, disabling automounting will make sure that fresh 8.04 installations shouldn't encounter this class of problem.