-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/07 16:39, Bogart Salzberg wrote: > Dear Debian Users, > > I partitioned and installed an ext3 filesystem on an external 250 GB > Western Digital USB 2.0 drive. It mounts OK manually and I can > read/write it. I added this line to /etc/fstab in order to mount the > drive at boot time: > > /dev/sdc1 /archive ext3 defaults 0 3 > > Upon reboot, I got an error at the console re: fsck not finding a valid > filesystem. But when I exit the maintenance shell and continue booting, > the drive mounts as specified and "fsck /dev/sdc1" reports clean. > > Are the USB drivers not loading in time? I tried changing the "pass" > value in column 6 of /etc/fstab to 0. This had the desired effect of > skipping the fsck checks, but the drive did not automount either. > > Has anyone else out there encountered this problem with mounting USB > drives at boot?
Stock Debian binary kernel or home-rolled? > Also, does anyone have any hints for recovering all of the startup > console messages after boot? I get a lot out of "dmesg" and > "/var/log/kern.log", but some messages are missing. For example, the > fsck messages. Are they being wiped out by messages from higher/other > run levels? > > Also, the box stalled during POST after reboot, which I found > remarkable. Is it possible the USB drive has introduced an interrupt > problem? Well that's Bad. Just one time? > Whoa, that's three issues in one message. ;-) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA %SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHVIhMS9HxQb37XmcRAmfSAJ9ouYCNDEqHi3wgEIWM8oE7QZPotACffF6W T0FxZERsyDP+dNpwJvyF/gs= =tyAH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
