On Fri 22 Feb 2019 at 14:20:05 (-0500), Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 11:36:28AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > Before disconnection the power to the drives, I edited out their > > lines in fstab. I disconnecting the power to sdb and sdc and > > started the computer. It booted for a few lines until it > > encountered the line starting with 'start job fgfor device disk by > > . . .' (at least that what i jotted down). then t\iot Then it > > through the three HD's, two of which had the power unplugged) for > > 1 minute and 30 seconds and then went on to tell me that I could > > log on as root or ctrl-D to continue. Ctrl-D didn't work so I > > logged oh as root > > It sounds like you didn't actually comment them out of fstab.
Well, that should be easy to check: reconnect the drives and boot up the system "as normal". And while it's up, I would seriously look at those mount point names; I agree, they are awful. Create some nice new ones to use with your future disk(s). Cheers, David.
