Re: [gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk (SOLVED ?)

2008-06-02 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Thank you alan and >Q<. The problem seems to be that I was trying to mount (a partition of) the usb disk at boot time with localmount. The localmount init script is run before the usb filesystem (usbfs) is mounted. I have now listed it as noauto in fstab and mount it in local.start. But I did l

Re: [gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk

2008-06-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 01 June 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > As a work-around I added mount -a to local.start. > I am a beginner with udev, but it looks like usbfs > is being mounted too late. On the contrary, I'd say you are trying to create a device far too early. The normal storage nodes are only created i

[gentoo-user] udev problem with USB disk

2008-06-01 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am having trouble with my external USB disk. I have the following entry in fstab: /dev/usbhd1 /mnt/b ext3 defaults 0 0 I have written /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules DRIVERS=="usb", ATTRS{serial}=="335144304641374D", ATTRS{product}=="ST94811U2-RK", ATTRS{manufacturer}=="Se