> > 1. Add that sleep to fsck (or any earlier script) instead of localmount. >
Thanks Mike, I put 'sleep 5' in checkfs and that seemed to do the trick. Interesting: The file systems are checked in two stages. *Checking root fiilesystem... and /dev/sda is set up followed by *Remounting root filesystem read/write next, the modules are loaded followed by *Checkinig all filesystems... and /dev/sdb is set up, followed by *Mounting local filesystems... and I'm in. Never noticed that before. mw
