> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-fstab-generator.html > > The passno field is treated like a simple boolean, and the ordering > information > is discarded. However, if the root file system is checked, it is checked > before > all the other file systems. > > So apparently it's indifferent whether the fstab sixth field contains a 1 or a > 2 in the world of systemd.
Aha, thanks! I can confirm that things work just fine after changing it manually to 2.